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So according to the news, the German minister of defence comes with news from NATO; according to NATO directives or whatever Germany is supposed to add formations to its armed forces.
Meanwhile, some American dipshit in office blathered something about seeing NATO countries moving towards 5% GDP military spending.
This truly is the idiocracy timeline !
Article 87a
[Armed Forces](1) The Federation shall establish Armed Forces for purposes of defence. Their numerical strength and general organisational structure must be shown in the budget.
Translated to commoner language, this means it's the legislative branch that defines the general organisational structure in Germany, NOT the minister of defence. I understand it's done differently in practice, but the German minister of defence has jack shit authority to define the general organisational structure of the German armed forces (except in his capacity of also being a member of parliament and having one of hundreds of votes in there).
That's exactly as much (=jack shit) authority as NATO does have in the matter.
This is a well-established racket. It's something similar to the appeal to authority fallacy.
Regarding the 5%: Dipshit's own country won't spend that, there's no reason to bother paying attention to the word salat puke of the lying moron. There's no 5% GDP military spending agreement, no 5% GDP military spending obligation - there's none for 2% GDP, either.
Our #1 defence policy issue is the efficiency of spending followed by keeping China out of Europe. The military spending budgets are plentiful, regardless of the fact that claiming the opposite is fashionable.
related:
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/2018/04/patterns-of-propaganda-for-higher.html
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