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FireTower@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

The Netherlands set to meet Nato 2% defence spending target - DutchNews.nl

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The Netherlands set to meet Nato 2% defence spending target - DutchNews.nl

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FireTower@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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The Netherlands is set to top the Nato standard of spending at least 2% of GDP on defence this year, according to new figures from the organisation itself. In total, 22 of the 32 Nato countries will meet the requirement this year, the first time so many countries have done so, secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said in Washington on Monday. The minimum was introduced in 2006. The Netherlands has been consistently below the 2% level but the outgoing government upped...
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  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    I think it’s a very good thing that the European member nations are taking greater accountability for NATO, since greater than 90% of the member nations are European.

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      Especially since come January 2025, they may have lost one huge member state.

      • banghida@lemm.ee
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        Nah

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          I can’t possibly argue with such a well-reasoned rebuttal. My hat is off to you, sir, madam or other.

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            Np

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    I guess it would have been a bad look for Rutte as new NATO chief not to do this.

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    Should’ve been the whole time

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