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#defencespending

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nikol

The FT, an anti-Trump establishment stalwart, is normalising a Trumpian coup threat against the Spanish PM for failing to acquiesce to a bonkers increase in Spain’s defence budget - that would blow up the country’s finances. This is what it has come to!

(https://www.ft.com/content/5908b7ed-d971-4bde-9458-3d3193f456fe)

https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1938156086474744156

Financial Times · Spain’s Pedro Sánchez at risk as Nato gamble sparks Donald Trump’s ireBy Henry Foy
#Trump#coup#Spain
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Rich Stein (he/him)

Negotiations? Not for Taiwan or South Korea. US administration is pushing for other nations to spend 5% of GDP on defense — because it means more weapons sales for the US.

BTW, while US military spending is the highest in the world, it is only 3.4% of GDP.
theguardian.com/world/ng-inter
#Defense #Defense #DefenseSpending #DefenceSpending

The Guardian · Armed by America: how Europe’s militaries depend on the US – a visual analysisBy Alex Clark
Japan

Japan Cancels Key Annual Meeting With US

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gives his opening speech at the beginning of the meeting with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth at his office in Tokyo. March 30, 2025. Stanislav Kogiku/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Japan has called off a high-level annual meeting wi…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #DefenceSpending #donaldtrump #JapanUSAnnualMeeting #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #us
alojapan.com/1303393/japan-can

Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1303393/japan-can Japan Cancels Key Annual Meeting With US #DefenceSpending #DonaldTrump #Japan #JapanNews #JapanUSAnnualMeeting #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #us Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gives his opening speech at the beginning of the meeting with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth at his office in Tokyo. March 30, 2025. Stanislav Kogiku/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Japan has called off a high-level annual meeting with its key ally, the United…

Maude Nificent

#Auspol #AUKUS #DefenceSpending

Saturday Paper June 14 2025

Hugh White
Can Albanese fix Australia’s defence?

(Hugh White is emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University. He is a former deputy secretary of the Department of Defence and wrote Australia’s 2000 Defence White Paper.)

<<The news that Washington is reviewing the AUKUS submarine deal puts a bombshell under Australia’s defence policy and sharpens the debate of recent weeks about defence spending. In that debate, suddenly 3 per cent is the new 2 per cent. For 30 years, 2 per cent of gross domestic product has been widely accepted as the benchmark for responsible defence spending. Recently, the number has drifted up towards 2.5 per cent. Now, under pressure from United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, people, including the Coalition, are seriously considering 3 per cent.

This is real money. Each per cent of GDP means about $28 billion, every year. Defence is important, but it is a big mistake to spend more on it than necessary, because every dollar taken from other priorities for defence makes us a less educated, less healthy and less productive society.

We will never discover how much we need to spend on defence by bandying GDP percentages. In this debate they are close to meaningless, as Anthony Albanese has, to his credit, made clear. The only sensible way to set the defence budget is to build the case step by step. What broad strategic objectives do we want our armed forces to be able to achieve? What operations do they therefore need to be able to perform? What capabilities would perform those operations most cost-effectively? How much do those capabilities cost?>>
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<<We will have to spend [our defence budget] much more wisely, by rigorously applying the logic of defence policy – defining strategic objectives, setting operational priorities, selecting the most cost-effective capabilities, and delivering them as cheaply and efficiently as possible. It is a long time since our defence policy was subjected to this kind of ruthless analysis.>>

sharing a “gift” link to the article here. if you are interested and it is still behind a pay wall, please let me know.

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/

The Saturday Paper · Can Albanese fix Australia’s defence?By Hugh White
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Maude Nificent

#auspol #DefenceSpending #anzac

while as a rule i have the utmost respect and gratitude for members/former members of the military, i object to the promotion of defence as an issue to time with anzac day, and the jingoistic disneyfication of military service

people find themselves doing vile things in wartime, with little acknowledgement or help for what it costs. if we really appreciated service, we would not abandon returned service-people, or their families.

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yeah… nah, Gina — let she who has the most to lose put her own money [or life] where her mouth is

Gina Rinehart's major defence spending call falls flat with Labor, Liberals
sbs.com.au/news/article/gina-r

SBS NewsGina Rinehart's major defence spending call falls flat with Labor, LiberalsGina Rinehart’s defence spending call goes well beyond what either major party has pledged.
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