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Originally Posted by thommy
i really do not see your exact point?
if they spend 1 or 2 % dows not really matter (well in hollandīs case maybe yes) because look france, germany, spain, italy and even poland and some other EU/nato countries are big producers and exporters of weapons - they will not buy from US or just a small part and only in EXCHANGE for own weapons.
obama and also trump is behind this money because USA is the worldīs BIGGEST industry for arms - that game is always about money - no matter who it plays.
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Well, it does matter. Trump said that he had no interested in NATO. And suddenly the politic parties in Holland start talking about putting more money in the army, except some left parties. I am Dutch and pretty sure that when Trump (or NATO) doesn't make clear they have to keep their military on a normal level, the Dutch government would spent less coming years. That can happen anyway, depending which parties will lose or win the elections in March. Doesn't matter who sells the weapons. Holland can even build their own submarines or flightdekships to reach the 2% norm.
The wall was for people keeping in east Berlin, but alsoas a part of the whole cold war and nuclear threat. They even have a sort of wall between the Koreas. Sure it doesn't stop missiles, but it prevents from other sorts of attack that could result in a real war or nuking. There are walls in Isreal, also to make sure it will be harder to escalate things. Altough i am sure they would use a nuclear missile, if they had them.