Even the US doesn’t spend that much. Trump is just raising the number until no one can reach it so that he has an excuse to pull out.
Why is Rutte humoring this? Is he just trying to placate Trump until he leaves office?
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3.5% on defense and 1.5% on related infrastructure (infrastructure, cyber security). My guess is the 1.5% is going to be an amount that countries are already spending or are going to simply recategorize. By itself, 3.5% is a solid, realistic target, but 2032 is quite far away. This isn’t the Obama years where there is no urgency; there is an active war being waged in Europe right now.
Presumably they’ll raise the equipment % too so you can’t try to game it by raising pension schemes.
It just feels like people can do better. The original 5% without the infrastructure fluff seems fine.
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Even the US doesn’t spend that much. Trump is just raising the number until no one can reach it so that he has an excuse to pull out.
Why is Rutte humoring this? Is he just trying to placate Trump until he leaves office?
3.5% on defense and 1.5% on related infrastructure (infrastructure, cyber security). My guess is the 1.5% is going to be an amount that countries are already spending or are going to simply recategorize. By itself, 3.5% is a solid, realistic target, but 2032 is quite far away. This isn’t the Obama years where there is no urgency; there is an active war being waged in Europe right now.
Presumably they’ll raise the equipment % too so you can’t try to game it by raising pension schemes.
It just feels like people can do better. The original 5% without the infrastructure fluff seems fine.