Originally Posted by thommy

there was an agreement that all NATO partners will increase their budget to an approximate target of 2 % in average in THE COMING YEARS.

1. Germany increased it already
2. Germany had spending of 3,15% in the financial crisis
3. The German army consists of volunteers. There's currently not even a clue what to do with the money there. Adding countries like Luxembourg and Iceland what have a small population but I quite huge GDP. What shall they buy for their army? Guns from gold ?

But last not least the biggest argument is that we have passed this days of cold war and the illusion that we could handle a conflict with a war.
the very best weapon we have is our economy.
every country want to trade with the EU and not destroy a potential customer.