Comment by flanked-evergl

Europe is the world's sick man. Merz is talking as if he is going to spite the US by having Germany fund their own defence, but in reality, whether Germany will be able to fund anything at all is very much in question as its economy is in full collapse and there is no way Merz will pull it together, he will just put pedal to the metal in a car that has already gone over the cliff.

Germany needs to stop reinventing the wheel, clearly they don't understand how it works. They should instead just try doing what the US has done. In Norway our politicians are now talking about increasing our tax burden even more, and raising the cost of living even more so more money from middle-class and poor people in Norway can be used to shore up the failing German economy because they can't be bothered to pull themselves together. It's an embarrassment. All while Europe is still playing graduated escalation games with Ukrainian lives.