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A procurement plan obtained by POLITICO shows Berlin’s rearmament spree will overwhelmingly benefit European industry.
Germany’s new military procurement plan, obtained by POLITICO, shows that Berlin will steer its massive rearmament drive primarily to European industry, with only 8 percent going for American weapons.
That’s a blow for Donald Trump, who has been putting pressure on European countries to continue buying U.S. arms despite the geopolitical turmoil emanating from the White House.
The procurement plan shows Germany preparing to push through nearly €83 billion in contracts over the next year. The list, drawn up for the German parliament’s budget committee, details 154 major defense purchases between September 2025 and December 2026.
80 years later and I’m happy to hear the Germans are rearming… my grandfather must be looking down wondering if the world will ever make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures
Germany is already one of the biggest military spenders in the world, they are not “rearming” the government is arming even more and you shouldn’t be happy about it.
From the lastest US executive order that labels antifa as a terrorist organization:
"All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations”
Any cent dumped on war can also be used against you, keep this in mind when you cheer up military spending.
Germany is also a large, wealthy country. If you compare it to its peers the picture is completely different. It spends about 1.9% of GDP on the military.
Personally I am 0% worried about Germany’s military spending being used against me.
I am much more worried that an overall more belligerent tone is being created in the world that will make it more dangerous for everyone, including me, but failure to respond to belligerence doesn’t make us safe either. Don’t forget what’s at stake: by shipping Ukrainian children off to Russia, Putin is carrying out ethnic cleansing. If his testing of boundaries reveals he might be able to take another slice of salami for himself, he is likely to. That slice will mean another attempt to extinguish a culture.
You assume the germany government is a bunch of good guys that will never use weapons against you. Ever heard about afd?
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Even if the AfD takes power, there is no chance they’re using Germany’s military against me.
as long as you are not a “terrorist”
Do you think I am German or something? The AfD is never even going to know my name.
All they have to do to know your name is type your ip in a database
So you think the AfD is going to
None of this chain of events is likely. Yes, it’s possible to find people’s real identity from their online identity, but what about the rest of it?
That spending really isn’t accurate, as the way I understand it many of the programs get cancelled at 12 monthly funding reviews.
[warning 1 hour video essay, from 3 years ago] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jDUVtUA7rg
AfD is also tied for the lead in the polls. So temper your happiness. Nazi rising again.
they still have thier own problems, like the AFD becoming more popular.
Not to mention, their chairmen alice weidel praises past while having a literal nazi grandfather. Iirc she literally said “the time of our grandparents was so great…”
Not only Germany rearming. Worse is that the USA turns Nazi. They just re-enacted the Reichsparteitag 1934 in Glendale…