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Europe is in the middle of a large increase in defense. Over the past decade, military budgets have doubled in the EU. As can be seen, justification is obvious. Europe’s protection is damaged. The danger from Russia is real.

But take a break for a second to review the facts.

Ten years ago, Russia’s occupation was not a “lost ten years” for Europe’s soldiers. According to SIPRI, the total cost of Europe’s NATO members in this period reached $ 3,15TT over $ 2023. It is great from Russia. Today, in general, Europe has been agreed that there is a need for a more placement of combat. But there are more than 1.47 million men and women in Europe – it’s more active than the United States.

Not a scandal, European defense budgets have not increased twice anymore. The scandal is that Europe spends so much and is very low for it – an effective obstacle, less placed, and there is no weapons collection to supply Ukraine.

Imagine that if he had spent $ 3.15TN in the European energy crossing. Four Biden-type IRA programs returned. But then imagine that we received a landscape with all expenses, solar panels and windmills and windmills and windmills and a picture without clean energy and coal phase. Would be a scandal. And then, imagine that our first idea was to spend twice the purpose of this purpose when he met a new energy crisis.

If this is a common sense, what is madness?

An Optimist can say that things are not as bad as claimed. Europe, in fact, at least a few (mostly English, French and Turkish) bang, for 3TN bucks. With the overdue reconstruction, even Germany can be in the way to prevent a reliable obstacle. Agree to the basics of a common air defense system or a limited selection of tanks, corrects all the differences. Bar is low. All Europe is to achieve a fruitless level of all Europe’s US military-industrial complex.

On the contrary, a kinney is a child who expanded Europe’s Baroque militarism. Only very naivety believes that military expenditures are more about national security in the first place. Waste is not wrong – a feature. How do you explain the cost-seals system used for handicrafts, 17 million euros Howitzers? How do you explain the other union of the vast majority of military procurement by larger European countries? It is not interested in sufficient quantities and decent prices, and will continue in this way.

Both optimistic and hatred have a point, but are currently undergoing. In general, we ask us to believe that the crisis in the European defense is real and urgent. After spending more than $ 3 billion in ten years, Europe was not almost no military capacity. The only choice to correct this situation is to pour good money after the worse.

However, if this additional costs are not a prescription to be disappeared, the theory of change should be related. Obviously, Europe can win a scale economy by ordering larger gangs. However, it does not require more money, but more among the borders. To justify the increase, you need to believe that the new money will become the disappointment of Europe’s moribund and the disappointment of the 20th century militarism in the 21st century. A quantitative increase in cost is to believe you will somehow believe in quality improvement.

In these conditions, the issue of European charter is found in some ways. Only the energy transition partnership in 2021, the energy transition partnership in 2021 was based on the idea that Europe and the United States, South African and Indonesia, to sell demolished interest groups and decarbonization to decarbonization.

“Quantity to Quality” is a lovely idea. However, these partnership was considered ambitious for several billion euros. Europe’s defense plans are hundreds of larger and will introduce significant tension in budgets already. At least European democracy is transparency on the bets that citizens who are indebted to citizens.

This is a general sense, which is growing in another healthy military car, long. This is a multi -itillion-euro bet that more money can make a broken system.