Why can't Europe defend itself?

[Sarmatian]

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.

Ah, just like the good old days. Everything is upside down nowadays. Jews are waging wars, Germans are trading...

[Kagemusha]

Ah, just like the good old days. Everything is upside down nowadays. Jews are waging wars, Germans are trading...

Its even more complicated.For example Finland is using a fourth generation anti tank missile called Euro Spike, jointly developed by Israeli Rafael and German Rheinmetall. It would seem Germany is making weapons with every second nation these days. In matter of fact it would seem that indeed today Germany is the worlds third largest arms trader after US and Russia.

[Louis VI the Fat]

it would seem that indeed today Germany is the worlds third largest arms trader after US and Russia.

Indeed.

Also, since 2000, the arms exports of America and the UK have sharply decreased, while those of Germany and France have exploded and nearly doubled.

In line with the trollness of this thread: gee, one wonders why...

the amount of obese people encountered in North America.

Don't get mad. Get even. Wave those euro bills around that the surrender monkeys have been making by the billions ever since reliable France and Germany took a massive arms exports share from America and Britain this past decade.

[gaelic cowboy]

Indeed.

Also, since 2000, the arms exports of America and the UK have sharply decreased, while those of Germany and France have exploded and nearly doubled.

In line with the trollness of this thread: gee, one wonders why...

I suspect they need them for themselves