{"id":204811,"date":"2025-07-14T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=204811"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:20:38","slug":"its-crazy-we-will-spend-700-billion-euros-more-on-defence-than-the-entire-russian-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/its-crazy-we-will-spend-700-billion-euros-more-on-defence-than-the-entire-russian-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s crazy\u201d: We will spend 700 billion euros more on defence than the entire Russian GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent summit, the NATO member states agreed to increase their defence spending to 5% of national GDP. Russia is officially classified as a long-term threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Then I think: \u2018Is no one thinking about what has just been decided here?\u2019<\/em>\u201d reacted former Member of the European Parliament Rob Roos in the podcast <em>Op z&#8217;n Kop!<\/em> (in German):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204812\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204812\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-56-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-56-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-56-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-56-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-56.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Roos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He pointed out that NATO&#8217;s collective GDP is \u20ac54 trillion, of which 5% corresponds to \u20ac2,700 billion \u2013 this amount will be spent annually on defence in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">Het Rekensommetje van het Militair Industrieel Complex\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LSqWFeIYOG\">pic.twitter.com\/LSqWFeIYOG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Kramer (@Benchipichape) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benchipichape\/status\/1942084255003140345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>And then Russia is portrayed as a major threat \u2013 even though Russia&#8217;s total GDP is \u20ac2,000 billion. So, we&#8217;ll be spending \u20ac700 billion more on armaments than Russia&#8217;s total revenue. That&#8217;s insane<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roos also emphasized that the necessary equipment was not available at all. \u201c<em>In Ukraine, we had great difficulty supplying the army at all \u2013 the equipment simply wasn&#8217;t there<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also thinks that the military industry, on the other hand, is celebrating: \u201c<em>After this summit, they opened the champagne bottles<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roos warned of massive price increases: \u201c<em>A bullet that costs 1 euro today will cost 10 euros after this NATO summit. We&#8217;ll hardly buy anything anymore \u2013 everything will just keep going, and these people will make money<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expected price explosion for weapons and ammunition is no coincidence, but a logical consequence of political decisions. If all NATO countries massively rearm simultaneously, a surge in demand will meet an industry with limited capacity. Production cannot keep pace, raw materials and energy are expensive, and manufacturers know that governments will have to buy at inflated prices. Thus, a bullet that once cost 1 euro quickly becomes worth ten times that amount \u2013 while the military industry reaps record profits and ultimately, taxpayers foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nJuly 14, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent summit, the NATO member states agreed to increase their defence spending to 5% of national GDP. Russia is officially classified as a long-term threat. \u201cThen I think: \u2018Is no one thinking about what has just been decided here?\u2019\u201d reacted former Member of the European Parliament Rob Roos in the podcast Op z&#8217;n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censored-news-military-5127-en-censored-sensational-news-3480-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204815,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204811\/revisions\/204815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}