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European officials are preparing a multibillion-dollar defense package to bolster regional security and support Ukraine, announced by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Munich Security Conference.

The package, potentially valued up to 700 billion euros, will fund military training, arms deliveries, and security guarantees amid concerns over Russian aggression and diminishing U.S. contributions to NATO.

The move follows calls for Europe to boost its own defense spending while U.S.-Russian talks, which exclude Ukraine and Europe, on ending the Ukraine conflict continue.

    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Is your point that Russia should be allowed to steam roll through Ukraine? Europe shouldn’t help their allies and neighbors defend themselves? Standing up to bullies is worse than being a bully?

      Genuinely curious if you even have a point to make at all. I hope I’m just interpreting you wrong.

      • index@sh.itjust.works
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        Nobody should help authoritarian governments and nobody should sell weapons to them. Ukranian people and the ukranian government are two different things, same goes for every country.

        Standing up to bullies is worse than being a bully?

        Nobody is standing up to shit, russians are chilling in saudi arabia docked next to americans yachts bought with money from the military industry.

        Stand up against useless wars and military spending

        https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-preparedness-the-road-to-universal-slaughter

        • perestroika@lemm.ee
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          5 days ago

          Stand up against useless wars and military spending

          Meanwhile, read about Ukrainian anarchists building drones and sending supplies for their comrades in army.

          They know: if you get Putin’s regime deployed on yourself, your chances for peaceful activism tumble down to nothing - you can’t even hold a blank sheet of paper.

          https://takku.net/article.php/20250106233015550

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      6 days ago

      So since adjusting by PPP Russia has spent over a trillion in USD on the war, that makes Russia the aggressor?

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      Is this a joke? Sorry so much time living in clown world has made it hard to tell.

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        6 days ago

        In a world where everyone is brainwashed by state propaganda advocating for peace and military spending cut is considered a joke.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      You have to spend money on weapons in order to have the privilege of sitting peacefully with those weapons rather than dying on your enemies.

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      So, the US and Russia are the aggressors, so, they need to be repelled, right?

      Which costs money.