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Sweden officially joins NATO (www.nato.int)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's also been a case of "it's nice to spend money on nice things instead of things designed to kill people". Which it is! It's not a non-significant part of why EU's GDP per capita is so much higher than Russia's.

Which is also why fuck Russia. Governments like that make everything worse.

[–] SuddenDownpour 1 points 8 months ago

Completely agreed. The ideal defense spending is 0. The problem is that this is only possible if everyone agrees that military action is not the proper method to solve international conflicts.