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    PhilipTheBucketMA to World News@quokk.au · 23 hours ago

    NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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    NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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    PhilipTheBucketMA to World News@quokk.au · 23 hours ago
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    NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence – Reuters, DPA
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    NATO countries have agreed a statement ahead of their upcoming summit that sets a target of increasing annual defence and security spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, overcoming opposition from Spain.
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      Hasn’t that been the target for decades? Or whatever the number was, almost no country has been meeting it.

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        It’s been 2%. Historically a lot of NATO wasn’t meeting that, but in the last few years people have been taking it a lot more seriously.

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          Whoa. Poland sure decided to show up for the party in 2024. I wonder why…

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            Bad neighbors require good fences, or something like that.

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              Or at least paying the bill from the security company

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                I don’t like this analogy. It’s more like insurance premiums. We’re doing risk pooling, in a way.

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