Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
I'm starting to wonder what kind of threads we'd get if Germany started to pump 5% of it's GDP into the military, build carriers, threaten Israeli forces in Palestine with bombardment if they do not withdraw within two days etc. Oh and build our own nukes of course.
Just like the good old days of the Kaiser, it worked really well for us in the end.
That's why I brought Germany up. It ranks 6th in the world in military spending with 1.3% of its GDP devoted to it and could easily be third if it bumped GDP up to the 2.4% French and British levels. And the 1994 ruling stretched the definition of 'defense' almost as far as the US has.