Munich security conference

[Beskar]

The combined defense spending of EU countries is akin 274 billion dollars. So more then 1/3rd of what US is spending and about 3 times what Russia is spending. But to me as European this does not mean anything.

Most of it is replica spending. As in, there are 27 different supply lines where there could be one. If Europe were to compete with the United States, it would have to become more unified within a European model. Whilst some of this is done under NATO, the merger of National armies into a grand European army would be far more cost effective and become far more parallel to the likes of the US, Russia and China.