Pic: EXCELLENT: Europeans spend more on defence: USA vs EU vs Russia+China – My Comments

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Members of the German Army (Bundeswehr) load a U.S. howitzer from a rail car onto a heavy-goods transporter at the Bergen Hohne training facility as part of preparations for the U.S.-led Defender 2020 international military exercises on Feb. 12, 2020, near Bergen, Germany. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)

[The White Race still packs massive punch … and we think we're nothing. The USA spends $684 billion on the defense of its Jewish/Elite empire. But don't knock Europe. Europe spends $289 billion … and the Europeans are still only mildly pushing up their spending.

How much does the super-power of China spend? $181 billion … and Russia spends $61 billion. Thus, Russia+China, together send slightly LESS than our brethren in Europe!! Can Europe defend itself? Is that a dumb question or what? That has only been a valid question AFTER the hideous Jewish war called WW2!

Something I hate seeing, is how the USA forces the West to buy its weapons. The Europeans are more than capable of matching and beating US weapons quality.

If we took the US Military, the European Military and the Russian Military, as an example of the power of our race, which is not an unreasonable assumption, while excluding the whites of South America, Canada, etc … it should be obvious that the military power of the entire world actually lies in the hands of white males!

If only we could work as a team. We have nothing to fear. I am happy to see the Europeans increasing their military spending. We must stand by Europe and MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN. That's our homeland, that's where the greatest minds of our race live. United, we must stand. We must make our race GREAT AGAIN. And its very doable. Jan]

MUNICH – European nations are spending more on defense as they harbor doubts about America’s commitment to the continent despite the US troop presence here, according to a new study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Countries here spent $289 billion in 2019, which is 4.2 percent more than in 2018. Within that budget, the share of new investments grew to 23.1 percent from 19.8 percent, analysts wrote in their annual study on global defense capabilities, dubbed “Military Balance 2020” and released at the Munich Security Conference.

Clocking in at 4 percent, global defense spending saw a similar increase, the largest in ten years. Nations are spending more because they have recovered from the financial crisis and due to what IISS director-general John Chipman dubbed “sharpening threat perceptions.”

For Europe, the main worry is Russia, especially on the eastern flank. The Pentagon in response has shored up its troop presence on the continent following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

The trans-Atlantic relationship has turned somewhat icy since President Donald Trump took office, however. Trump has repeatedly claimed, in strong terms, that Europe is taking advantage of the United Stated on defense and trade. Those proclamations are viewed by many here as part of a pattern in Washington that eschews multilateralism as an organizing principle of the West.

In that context, the new study argues, the U.S. troop presence may be losing its shine as a manifestation of America’s bond with Europe.

The same logic also applies elsewhere on the globe, according to Chipman. “Within NATO and beyond, the arrival of additional US personnel and equipment is not necessarily sufficient anymore to dispel allies’ and partners’ concerns over US strategy, commitment and engagement, or wholly deter opponents,” he told reporters.

The think tank’s observation undercuts a longstanding argument in Trump’s Washington that harsh White House rhetoric should be taken with a grain of salt while the Pentagon is still hard at work in maintaining old alliances around the globe, most visibly by basing U.S. forces there.

“Deterrence is not only about disposition of forces,” Chipman told Defense News in a brief interview. “Every US defense secretary reiterates the commitment to Europe as being reflected in spending. But when you have a commander-in-chief who puts doubt on that, it doesn’t matter how much you spend.”

The IISS argument fits into the theme of this year’s Munich Security Conference, “Westlessness.” The term of art is meant to describe the community of western countries drifting apart as governments realize that the alliance’s common values may no longer be universally shared as they once were.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, for his part, still believes the West, with NATO as its most prominent defense organization, can count on the United States. Speaking with reporters at the Munich Security Conference, he said the West maintains the ability to act, if necessary, citing America’s commitment and troop presence in Europe as a major enabler.

Washington’s defense spending, meanwhile, sat at $684.6 billion in 2019, according to the think tank. “The nominal increase in U.S. defense spending – at $53.4 billion – came close to equalling the UK’s entire budget on defense of $54.8 billion. This nominal U.S. increase would, if measured on its own, constitute the seventh-largest defense budget in the world.”

China and Russia spent $181.1 billion and $61.6 billion on defense in 2019, respectively, according to the study.

Source: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/munich-security-conference/2020/02/15/europeans-crank-up-defense-spending-amid-doubts-over-us-backing/