Re:China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea
by nradov on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:45AM
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If Germany was actually making a contribution to the common NATO defense then I doubt anyone would quibble about whether they were complying with the 2% target or not. The real problem is that the German military has been reduced to a jobs program and is no longer combat effective. Do they have any working submarines now or are they still all broken? How many aircraft are actually mission capable today?
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Re:China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea
by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:17AM
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> the common NATO defense
Against whom? In practice, NATO is an offensive alliance: Afghanistan, Libya and Bosnia were not defensive wars.
NATO military spending already dwarfs that of any potential rival. Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent on social programs, hospitals, schools, and other things that actually improve people's lives. Rather than pressuring everyone to ratchet up military spending, the world would be much better served by disarmament.