this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
102 points (100.0% liked)

World News

38548 readers
2600 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared on social media on Wednesday that his country would have the "highest defence budget" in Europe and would maintain the 2% target "in the decades to come... for safety and reliability".

Estonian intelligence chief Kaupo Rosin warned on Tuesday that Nato could face a "Soviet-style mass army in the next decade".

Speaking at a rally on Saturday, Mr Trump said he had once told a Nato leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments, and would "encourage" the aggressors to "do whatever the hell they want".

The remarks were denounced as "dangerous" and "un-American" by President Joe Biden, and condemned by the Nato secretary general and German chancellor.

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 heavily influenced Western defence spending last year, and 11 countries were expected to have met the 2% target in 2023.

Seven more countries are likely to follow suit in 2024, and Germany's projected spending is set to climb to the equivalent $73.41bn (€68.5bn;£58.5bn), according to German press agency DPA.


The original article contains 645 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 73%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!