Or, bear with me here, a reason to increase defence spending *could be* that Russia has sought to remake the borders of Europe by force.
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Daniel
Why on earth would you want to increase ‘defense’ spending? It has little to do with actual defense and far more to do with ramping up military aggression against competing nations, all in the interest of the wealthy, and to protect a neoliberal austerity status quo that has clearly failed
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They can only do harm
but you have to be bonkers to think upping defense spending is unnecessary in the world we now find ourselves in
The grand irony is that over the years Welfare (that isn't pensions) has become less 'strict' per person on average with Military Spending being lower relative to GDP.
[Guessing for Boom Bust but sometimes leaving it on for the propaganda infusion shows]