• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    Funding the army to protect yourself and your neighbours from aggression is very different from funding the army to invade a sovereign country.

    I’m not arguing it’s not one of the reasons for increasing the budget, but arguing it’s to attack Russia is just dishonest.

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      2 months ago

      Not dishonest, but following the jingoistic remarks made by several European leaders plus the current NATO proxy war and economic murder attempt of Russia, it’s at the very least in the cards, lol. The budget could go into Ukrainian drones (it already is, this is just a proposed increase) just like the American budget serves to bomb tf out of Palestine and neighbours. It’s dishonest to say otherwise, come on.

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        plus the current NATO proxy war and economic murder attempt of Russia

        Wow, why would “NATO” do this? Russia hasn’t invaded anyone since 2022 2014 2008 1999 1994 1979 1968 1956, that’s such a long time ago, and those Hungarians totally deserved it.

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      They are already attacking Russia through a proxy. They’ve not been shy about it. They are increasing military spending because they think their proxy is about to collapse and their liege the US is already demanding everyone else step up so they can pivot to China.