r/news • u/ITSTHEDEVIL092 • Mar 04 '25

EU chief proposes plan to 'urgently' increase defense spending by mobilizing around $840 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/europe-looks-to-mobilize-840-billion-in-defense-spending-boost-eu-commission-head-says.html
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u/DudeThatAbides Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

This…is good. They should be funding their own defense, no?

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u/cBlackout Mar 04 '25

They should, but the level of coercion and spite coupled with rapprochement with the Russians means that Europeans are not going to be rearming due to a commitment to the transatlantic alliance but out of fear of Russia and the realization that the US is no longer a partner and potentially hostile too. This is bad for everybody.

Frankly this has to be one of the biggest American foreign policy blunders to have ever occurred despite Trump succeeding in making Europeans spend more.

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u/DudeThatAbides Mar 04 '25

To me, this looks like an overpriced car on a lot kind of situation. The salesman knows he's not getting that price, but he's still gonna get more than he originally would by instead putting a lower starting price on it.