Media reports said as much as $700 billion could be allocated to Europe's defenses, though it was not clear how much of that amount would go to Kyiv.

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.

    • indexEnglish
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      3 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            3 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.

            • indexEnglish
              37·
              3 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                3 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?

                • indexEnglish
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                  2 days ago

                  If you believe in democracy and its values you should realize that the current system is rigged as fuck and doesn’t resemble a democracy anymore. The same parties and the same people keep cycling in power and they keep bending the law as it please them to stay in charge. See US red and blue duopoly, Macron in france keeping his seat or the unelected pms who keep getting appointed in italy.