Posted on 03/31/2017 11:50:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel isn’t mincing his words. The pugnacious politician has called a NATO defense spending target being pushed by the US “completely unrealistic” for Germany.
“I consider it completely unrealistic to think that Germany will achieve a defense budget of over €70 million per year,” said Gabriel on Friday. “I don’t know of a single German politician who believes that is either achievable or desirable,” he added.
At a NATO summit in Wales in 2014, NATO members committed to working towards a goal of 2 percent of each state’s GDP being spent on their military by 2024. Currently only five member states fulfill this target. …
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Nope.
German “milliarden” = American “billion”.
That’s what the Euro elites want. People like Gabriel are playing psyops, even psywar.
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