Germany plans to spend 3.5% of GDP on military by 2029. Yes, that Germany.
Remember when Berlin struggled to hit the basic 2% NATO target? Well, defense minister Boris Pistorius just decided to skip the warm-up and aim straight for the sky.
For decades, the German military was basically a meme about missing equipment, endless bureaucracy, and broomsticks instead of machine guns on joint exercises.
But times change fast. Now, Boris Pistorius says that by 2029, Germany plans to spend a whopping 3.5% of its GDP on defense.
To put this in perspective, that is Cold War levels of panic. We are talking about hundreds of billions of euros poured into tanks, ammunition, and actual working gear. It turns out that having an aggressive neighbor with nuclear weapons is a fantastic motivator for fixing budget priorities. The Bundeswehr might actually get boots that fit.
It only took a major European war for Berlin to realize that pacifism does not stop artillery.
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