Nope, before the current government was elected, the Bundeswehr was underfunded to the point where they didn’t even fulfill NATO’s two percent target. They spent a ton of money on advisors and expensive contracts on top, but that alone was not the reason they were under budget.
Fair, but France spends almost the same amount of euros, but also maintains a nuclear arsenal, and an aircraft carrier and whatever we call colonial forces nowadays. That implies it’s not so much a funding issue, but a spending issue.
Of course, you can fix a spending issue by finding it more, and Germany is only around 1.4% of GDP.
That target was due in 2024 and isn’t reached by about half of all member states. Constantly bringing that up will just make you sound like a Trumpist.
The German military is actually pretty well funded. It’s just that they spend most of those funds on… well, they don’t really seem to know themselves.
Nope, before the current government was elected, the Bundeswehr was underfunded to the point where they didn’t even fulfill NATO’s two percent target. They spent a ton of money on advisors and expensive contracts on top, but that alone was not the reason they were under budget.
Fair, but France spends almost the same amount of euros, but also maintains a nuclear arsenal, and an aircraft carrier and whatever we call colonial forces nowadays. That implies it’s not so much a funding issue, but a spending issue.
Of course, you can fix a spending issue by finding it more, and Germany is only around 1.4% of GDP.
That target was due in 2024 and isn’t reached by about half of all member states. Constantly bringing that up will just make you sound like a Trumpist.