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.
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?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror
What makes you think there is any chance that the AfD is going to carry out war-on-terror style extrajudicial killings on me?
You don’t even know anything about me or my circumstances; you clearly don’t think this is actually likely because that would be stupid. I, with knowledge of my own situation, can tell you it is vanishingly improbable.
You started this subthread because people were in favour of Germany increasing military spending to counter the threat from Russia. Russia carrying out extra-judicial, extra-territorial killings, waging wars of conquest, carrying out ethnic cleansing and mass repression is not a possibility - it is happening right now.
When we assess whether the risk of future misuse of military assets is worth it, we need to be clear about what it is those military assets are for - they are precisely to prevent the misuse, as we see it, of the military assets of foreign states against our own citizens. When such aggression is rare, such as between 1991 and 2014, it is better to reduce the size of the military. When aggression is on the rise, it is necessary to increase it again.