sucius

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[–] sucius@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can't wait for the bubble to pop.

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online

Uhhh so edgy

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Read the agreement. It wasn't mandatory

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Income tax is one thing, social security is another and the taxes your employer pays as business are another. You're just conflating them all. Some countries have lower social security contributions but have no universal health insurance or you just have to pay out of pocket or it's tied to your work, etc. It's not apples to apples

 

From the EU capital, the president claims that Spain is a country that is "solidary" with NATO, but also "sovereign."

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Taxes I agree. They are proportionately larger than in most of the EU, and services worse.

They are actually below average

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/16/personal-average-tax-rates-in-europe-which-countries-saw-the-biggest-rise-in-2024

Services, I guess that's more a matter of opinion, but having lived in Germany, UK and the US, I think they're OK

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nobody knows, the new agreement hasn't been published yet (or at least I can't find it on the NATO website). What's on the NATO website is the previous one and the wording is intentionally very vague, as usual in these kinds of treaties so that everyone can keep doing their thing:

Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below this level will:

  • aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and filling NATO's capability shortfalls. (emphasis mine)
[–] sucius@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

mandatory to spend 2%,

It wasn't mandatory

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What will Ratte call him now to appease him? Will master do the trick?

 
President Donald Trump criticized Spain for not agreeing to new defense spending targets adopted by NATO and suggested the country could face tariffs twice as high from the US.
Trump stated that the US is negotiating a trade deal with Spain and threatened to make them pay twice as much, which caused Spain's benchmark stock index to extend its losses.
Spanish officials dismissed Trump's tariff threat, emphasizing that the European Commission handles trade matters for the EU and that individual member states don't negotiate trade deals on their own.
[–] sucius@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's no appeasing a bully. He'll come back for more if you give in. And now it seems whatever moronic idea born from his late night twitter mental diarrhea festivals, Ratte is gone eat up. Still, not surprising at all, Ratte was always a rat and a hypocrite

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"as secretary general calls him ‘daddy’" Jesus, Ratte give it a rest

 

‘Nato’s going to become very strong with us,’ says US president, as secretary general calls him ‘daddy’

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Spain almost had the bomb in the 80s but due to US pressure, none were manufactured(some say the CIA had a hand in killing Carrero Blanco who was pushing hard to start manufacturing it as the research was done)

[–] sucius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ratte at it again

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