NATO is planning to ask its European and Canadian members to boost their weaponry and equipment stocks by about 30% over the next several years.
Informed sources have told Bloomberg. Sputnik asked a pair of leading German and French observers what this would mean for a region already suffering economic malaise and industrial decline.
Key alliance members like Germany and France would amass an unsustainable fiscal burden, be forced into debt and have to slash social programs if they accept NATOβs call for a 30% bump in new arms and equipment spending, AfD MP Dr. Rainer Rothfuss told Sputnik.
βThe budget restraints that were even inscribed into our Constitution needed to be changed to get the financial flexibility to invest so much in defense. That shows us that itβs not a matter of priority spending, [but] a matter of, I would say, bankruptcy should this kind of policy be followed in the coming years.
European countries on the brink of social explosion
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Europe, once the richest and most advanced continent, is living its last days, writes Geopolitika.
Its humiliating decline has already become obvious to the rest of the world, even if the deceived Europeans themselves are not⦠pic.twitter.com/Ce0jDDbA6R
