Germany spends more than 2% of its GDP on NATO

“This is another record figure and six times more than in 2014, when only three Allies achieved the objective,” said the secretary general of the military alliance. Jens Stoltenberg andStructure of the meeting of defense ministers in Brussels.

According to Stoltenberg’s calculations, 18 of the 31 countries that make it NATO They are going to reach the target of 2% of GDP.

“We must end artisanal production of weapons and finally begin mass production of weapons,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, shovel in hand, during the launch of an expansion of the Rheinmetall Arms Consortium’s production plant, which will quadruple its output. next years.

The German government also announced that it had contributed for the first time since the late 1990s Cold War NATO with more than 2% of its gross domestic product, probably in response to the statements of the American candidate Donald Trump

Due to the lack of commitment of its members in the United States.

Last Saturday, Trump threatened to encourage Russia to attack NATO countries that do not contribute enough to its financing.

So some aspects like sending powerful Taurus missiles are still pending UkraineBut in short it was a radical change in German policy, which had been allergic to weapons since World War II.

Seeing the chancellor walking through the hangar admiring the new production of German tanks was an unthinkable image until a few years ago, now Germany seems to have finally woken up from the dream of “never war again”.