• chillhelm@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Germany is Europes biggest country by population and GDP (not counting Russia and Turkey for population). It makes perfect sense for them to be the biggest spenders on defence as well.

    Ironically the ultra right wing AfD party is actually against the rearmament, but that is mostly because they are Putin’s puppets. (They claim fiscal responsibility concerns but this is a laughably transparent excuse)

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      3 hours ago

      They’re against it in the same way any right wing populous group is. They pretend to be against big government and want to “end wars”. And then do the exact opposite when in power.

      Don’t believe fascist when they say they want to reduce spending on war. They just lie until they take enough power.