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To: ConservativeMind
***Are they also spending what the one lone Poland is spending? Not at all. They are looking for free stuff without contributing anything.***

All the eastern European NATO members (excluding Hungary) are upping their defence spending. Sweden abolished military conscription in 2010 but has reintroduced it. Latvia abolished it in 2007, but reintroduced it on 1/1/2024 explicitly due to the Russian threat.

The German government has stated that it will double military spending and has begun building new munitions factories. French production of 155mm shells was 60,000 per year in 2022, now due to increase three-fold to 180,000.

Routine British production of 155mm shells (during peacetime) was 96,000 a year. An eight-fold increase in production of 155mm shells was ordered. Therefore, the UK will produce 768,000 155mm shells per year.

127 posted on 04/20/2024 11:37:37 AM PDT by David Hunter
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To: David Hunter

Yeah, they never cared before. The US will do it all, for many, many decades.

No, we must stop it all.


129 posted on 04/20/2024 12:44:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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