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Is Germany Spending Enough on Defence?
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When Putin invaded Ukraine, Olaf Scholz promised major reinvestment in the German Army. But one year on, it seems his enthusiasm has waned. So in this video, we break down his promises, why and how he’s backtracked and the impact this will have on NATO.
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Diesel prices/components
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/us-diesel-sales-price-$-per-gallon-w-na-fed-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
https://www.ft.com/content/f117f347-e1e0-457c-83fc-ba4745581bb2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Fuel vs Dem congressional ballot
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/09/17/high-petrol-prices-could-hand-democrats-a-mighty-midterm-victory
Trump Truth Social posts
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117412435306815143
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117422699218841250
Zelenskyy comments
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/exclusive-zelensky-putin-trump-diesel-deal
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6141601-russia-strikes-ukraine-power-plant/
Laws
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act-related-sanctions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5025
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/SPEECH_26_1868
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https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/future-e3/origins-and-development-e3
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/the-consultation-process-and-article-4
https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/european-security-council-between-strategic-need-and-institutional
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757822/EPRS_BRI(2024)757822_EN.pdf
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@HolyRickstar
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
They armed up to take Europe within 4 years. But it will take them 50 years to arm up for war again okay. Anyone who believes this is naive , Germany is the industrial hub of western civilization they are the manufacturing heart of the western world. If Germany re arms it can easily surpass the United States as Germany is a manufacturing country unlike the US 🇺🇸 they produce twice as many automobiles and they have large factories. If Germany arms up they can easily turn those factories to a war time economy. This is disinformation.
@mor9n243
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Germany is so weak and pathetic now 😂
@c4knowledge562
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Maybe a European army would be a solution. Or maybe a German Franco army
@johnsnowkumar359
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
This man may be up to no good. Only the US takes trillion dollar national loans on defense every year. The Germans spent enough. Suppose Germany already has enough equipment from previous defense expenditures. So, on occasions in one fine year, Germany spending less than 2 percent is ok. The US spends on trillion dollars either yearly or after every 5 years, supposedly. The US also takes out, supposedly, new national loans of one trillion dollars. Angela Merkel refused to take national loans. On occasions, for one year , the US can easily hand out 1 trillion dollars to every man, woman and children locally born or naturalized, by just distributing new national loans among people in the country or among all people living in the western hemisphere. 1 trillion collars = 1000 billion dollars = 300 million people. So, the government of the US can easily distribute 3 billion dollars as gift grants to every person in the western hemisphere after the next national loan is approved by lawmakers or whoever.
@jrtstrategicapital560
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
USA taxpayers like myself are sick and tired of providing security for the damn freeloaders in Europe! We need the money for our selves! If you all don’t care about your defense..why should we across the ocean! It’s criminal and fraud that you all pretend to be a NATO MEMBER..
A year later nothing has changed….unlike Poland who ordered their NEW TANKS IN APRIL AND RECEIVED THEM 6 month later!
Good report..you should also look into the real reasons why Putin invaded Ukraine ….like all wars..it’s about oil and gas..the proven reserves under Crimea and the Eastern occupied regions represent the second biggest proven reserves in Europe…Putin wants a monopoly! It’s apparent german leaders are Putins agents!
@indiafirst3676
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Austria Fine Arts University just needs to start rejecting individuals more often
@malayanimates
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
we all know that they wanna begin the chinese copy of WW2 😏
@myleskgallagher
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Why dont we just refuse to defend any country that doesnt meet the 2% mark? Europe needs to pull its f*cking weight for once.
@gigganigga262
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Olaf has really worsened germany with his inresponsibility🤦🏿♂️
@augalexk7131
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
I love Germany but Germany needs to increase spening
@hairybubbles127
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Germany has sheltered under the kind cover of the US and NATO for too long.
@mpunekar
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Hey Gobbel's propagandist progeny, Putin didn't invade Ukraine, its RUSSIAN STATE which invaded Ukraine!
@mukkaar
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Clearly this is not about funds at all, they need to make review of their armed forces, make a plan to fix all the problems, then calculate the budget.
@DarrenWatson64
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
That's what happens when you get too cozy with Russia.
@nephite84
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
I mean Hitler ramped up the speed of the development of the millitary incredibly fast, after never really have one since ww1.
@Luzarioth
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
As a German, I am rather proud of our low Spending on Defence.
@Shineon83
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Wealthiest country in Europe—-always scheming, lying & backstabbing its “partners” for economic advantage….
The DEFINITION of “untrustworthy.”
@GeorgeCopperfield
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
This channel is so Western Biased 🤦🏾 AS IT SHOULD
@Dasistrite
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Didnt germany recently remove hundreds of military officers for being too "nationalistic"?
@DanielNistrean
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
The problem is in german government.
@Tyln93
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Ww1 Germany Fails.
Ww2 Germany Fails.
Now: Germany has succeeded in a financial take over of Europe!!!
Europe is under the control of Rothschild Family!!!
After using Germany twice, İlluminati smashed it, and used it again, making money by rebuilding, and driving us to the New World Order!!!
@ScottPerkinsLCMT
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
War in Europe and Germany still a NATO slacker..pathetic
@ichbins173
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Call it beureaucracy, call it medium corruption. The fact is we could spend 5% of GDP and it would not change anything. We have to massively reform the Beschaffungsamt and cut people there. A lot of people only work there for the sake of keeping their jobs yet on other positions in the German beureaucracy we desperately need new people. That’s where a lot of money also goes to waste: People keeping up the beureaucracy because else they would have to change to a different state organization.
@raquetdude
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
The conservatives for decades thought their merchants would keep Germany out of war and ignored their military.
@YD39222
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
The thing is, germany still hasn't spent a cent of the 100 billion
@dispatcher22z20
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
2:45 false it was faulty ammo the gun is fine
@gp-1542
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
A essentially “too many cooks”
And indulgent from “well our Allies can do heavy lifting”
@carlrowland3757
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Plaster not bandaid, you are not American
@carlrowland3757
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Plaster not bandaid, you are not American
@zachjones6944
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Do you know what would happen if German military got it together?
@bharnden7759
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
As a retired USAF, I would have gotten US out of nato back in the 90's. What a waste of USA tax dollars.
@marcelblock2454
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
It's a little unfair to compare modern day Germany to west Germany at the end of the cold war. That being said, it would be really nice to see Scholz do something, anything really, to tackle the bloated bureaucracy that dominates life in Germany.
I actually don't see how increasing the size of the special fond serves any purpose when it too is stuck in bureaucracy limbo.
@doktorquanton4069
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
The Defence minister that started this unending management problem and wasteful spending was Ursula von der Leien. Yes the current commission president of the EU.
@mangalores-x_x
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
not saying everything is honkey dorey but the primary BS by foreign media is a complete ignorance how spending works. The 100 billion fund alone needed months to pass legislation, then the armed forces put together what they want to request via that fund, then the parliamentary commitee met in November and passed the first batch of programs that have a go ahead in December. By that point the planning covered more than 30 billion from the fund.
In short: The claim that none of the 100 billion was accessed, yet, actually surprised none because that is not how fiscal spending works. Emergency funds from somewhere else may have been available and were untapped but that is a different money pot entirely.
@heyitsoscar_
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
It's funny how Poland is asking Germany to spend more on their Military 😂.
@jzisers
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Olaz thinks that increase German defense spending would make Germany a new Reich in his nation, which is false that is super unlikely that Germany becomes a 4th Reich in the future.
@timhocking529
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
They should just form a European Army and charge each of it’s members at least 2% of their national GDP and each country will also have have a right to form a National Guard.
@maximwittenberg5508
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Man muss Scholz,Baerbock,Habeck und die weiteren Vollpfosten einfach exekutieren,das sind nämlich die die den Amis in den verdammten Arsch kriechen und nix auf die Reihe bekommen. Wir müssen nach der NATO pfeife tanzen sonst geht es wieder in Richtung 2Weltkrieg dann, Deutschland will aufrüsten, könnte eine Gefahr werden usw. Die einzige Wahre Gefahr ist die NATO und die USA,mit diesem scheiß Wichser Obama,Biden und vorallem dieser Gott verdammte Bush,alles Kriegsverbrecher und das wird hier ignoriert, nein Danke, nicht mit uns.
AMI GO HOME!!!
@karrr1573
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
If Polish military today were to invade Germany and no one else interfered, can the Poles conquer Germany? Seriously wondering.
@kristofkarwinski5691
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
polska into Berlin
@thelastroman7791
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
People may criticize the Wehrmacht, but at least it got what it needed in a timely fashion and was well funded.
@gansior4744
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
welll, the fact they have the lowest % of GDP on the Army, despite the NATO requirments. Because of this, German soldiers wait avg 5 years for the Equipment, something like 12 Tigers are fly worthy, Most Leopards arent driving and are rusting in the storage, Puma IFV's are unreliable and also not driveable and they have so little ammunition, that Most soldiers dont even shoot
@LaRoche_
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Maybe an Austrian chap can fix this 🤔
@dutchman7623
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
3% of Polish GDP is less than half of German 1,25%
@samventi8160
February 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Change takes time. They have done already complete U turn in refugees, weapons allowed to be exported to an active Warzone and also have to change culture of Pacifism in Germany.