Germany set to double Ukraine military aid

What about that whole 'Ukraine did Nordstream' narrative? Guess Germany knows it's a cover story.

But there's no additional money available for infrastructure and social services within Germany. Something something Bundeshaushalt excuse and EU federal debt limit.

money doesn't immediately create soldiers or weapons.

Germany continuing their longstanding tradition of funding Nazi collaborators to kill Russians.

Great timing, I'm sure everybody is forgetting how it cost a small fortune to heat their home last winter right about now.

This doesn't appear to be anything official, right? not certain how much a coalition publicly agreeing to this translates to actual funding for Ukraine. Would also be nice to see how this funding stacks vs the US, and vs other EU country contributions.

Is this just a kind of inflation/recession write off for the EU and USA at this point? oh, our economy is not doing so great, we are short by X% of development from project, let's just write that off as 'aids' to Ukraine/Israel

This is the best summary I could come up with:

If approved by parliament, where Scholz's parties hold a majority, the boost would lift Germany's defence spending to 2.1% of its gross domestic product target, beyond the 2% pledged by all North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, the source added.

Lawmakers from Scholz's Social Democrats, the Free Democrats and the Green party agreed on the increase in negotiations over the proposed 2024 federal budget ahead of a formal meeting of the budget committee of the Bundestag - or lower house of parliament - on Thursday, Nov. 16, the source said.

A spokesperson for Germany's Ministry of Defence said the Bundestag committee has not finished negotiations and declined to comment further.

Defence minister Boris Pistorius, interviewed by broadcaster ARD, referred to the planned doubling of military aid to Ukraine.

"It is a strong signal to Ukraine that we will not leave them in the lurch," he said, adding the move, if agreed, would mean the annual budget allocation would be enough to last the whole year.

Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper had also said the committee is due to approve the additional 4 billion euros.

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ITT: plenty of vatniks sowing doubt with further supporting Ukraine.

yuppie

proudly standing tall on the bridge and saluting as the ship goes down...

As if there wasn't enough support for fascism in the world already. Digging your own grave Germany.

So how close to losing and being forced into an unconditional surrender does Ukraine need to be before Europe stops sending aid at their own huge expense?

The US is treating the EU like a doner kebab to feed Ukraine

Double it and give it to the next person.

EDIT: It was a joke about the famous stupid YouTube videos... Not saying they shouldn't give it to Ukraïne....

Germany is on a steady decline, decisions like this increase the pace.