Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by HideousKojima on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:56AM
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NATO members have always been supposed to spend at least 2% of GDP on military, other than the US and I think the UK literally no one was.
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by mrep on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:27AM
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France does. Not surprising though, maintaining nukes and nuclear missile submarines ain't cheap.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by unityByFreedom on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:13AM
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I believe that was a goal for a future date that has not yet arrived. Trump complained about it, but it wasn't due yet and was going to happen anyway. So it can look like he made it happen. He's full of cons.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by HideousKojima on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:13AM
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The 2% commitment was originally agreed to in 2006. After member nations continued to fail to spend enough, in 2014 it was a set as a goal to increase towards that goal year over year until 2024:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm#:~:text=....
Several countries hadn't made real any moves towards reaching that goal, and even now are still falling far short (see page 3):
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/10/p...