• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    23 hours ago

    France would approve 30% if it was up to them

    Up to whom? Has the majority of the population been consulted on military escalation and draining of state budget in welfare in favour of weapons?

    Also, you really don’t think the EU will spend a significant amount of that budget buying weapons from the US military industrial complex?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      23 hours ago

      Up to the French government, and everyone who works in the French weapons industry.

      France is the world’s second biggest arms exporter behind the US, and the EU just agreed to buy a shitton of weapons.

      On top of that, the 5% (actually 3.5%) was literally approved with a hanger-on saying that at least 80% has to be EU-domestic. Which practically means largely French.

      The rest is mixed US and other, but for example South Korean imports are also going strong.