Summary

European officials are preparing a multibillion-dollar defense package to bolster regional security and support Ukraine, announced by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Munich Security Conference.

The package, potentially valued up to 700 billion euros, will fund military training, arms deliveries, and security guarantees amid concerns over Russian aggression and diminishing U.S. contributions to NATO.

The move follows calls for Europe to boost its own defense spending while U.S.-Russian talks, which exclude Ukraine and Europe, on ending the Ukraine conflict continue.

  • Flying Squid
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    1227 days ago

    I think democracy is a good thing, therefore I should join the Ukrainian military?

    • @[email protected]
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      -1227 days ago

      If you think democracy is a good thing you should realize that there’s none anymore and ukraine is under martial law.

      • Flying Squid
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        427 days ago

        Go on. Tell me about how there’s nothing democratic about Switzerland or Iceland.

          • Flying Squid
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            627 days ago

            Neither thing has anything to do with democracy. You claimed there are no more democracies. Please explain how Switzerland and Iceland are not democracies.

            • @[email protected]
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              -527 days ago

              Flying squid you are picking up two irrelevant countries as switzerland and iceland because you know all the others to be corrupted as fuck. Democracy is being eroded worldwide in the same way: government are getting unlimited power and control over people and a bunch of rulers own all mass media.

              • Flying Squid
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                327 days ago

                Your words:

                If you think democracy is a good thing you should realize that there’s none anymore

                Either there is democracy in the world or there is not. Which is it?