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    4 days ago

    Oh yeah, it’s to totally send boots in Russia and walk on Moscow of course, we’ve almost done it once, we can do it again!
    That’s totally not a big jump to a fantasized conclusion fed to y’all by known Russian propagandists. The author of the article somehow manages to grasp the problem and dishonestly draw wrong conclusions from it.

    There are many reasons to increase the Army’s budget. Funneling money to Macron’s friends in the armament industry is one of them, preparing the public opinion for a war that will never happen to justify “sacrifices” and austerity is another.

    I don’t think there’s any point in debating about this on .ml anyway. You’ve probably made up your mind about this already.

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      There are many reasons to increase the Army’s budget. Funneling money to Macron’s friends in the armament industry is one of them, preparing the public opinion for a war that will never happen to justify “sacrifices” and austerity is another.

      These are probably also reasons, but you think war with Russia isn’t on the minds of every government in Europe right now? They’re already fighting a proxy war with Russia! At the very least I think this is one of many reasons for increased military funding.

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        3 days 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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          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.