US drückt auf die Italien zurück und zählt die Sizilienbrücke als NATO -Asset
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/us-frowns-on-italy-s-idea-of-making-sicily-bridge-a-nato-asset
US drückt auf die Italien zurück und zählt die Sizilienbrücke als NATO -Asset
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/us-frowns-on-italy-s-idea-of-making-sicily-bridge-a-nato-asset
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Europe LOL
The US said it disapproves of any creative accounting by European allies to reach a new NATO spending target, putting Italy on the spot as the government weighs whether to count the construction of the world’s longest suspension bridge as military expenditure.
“I have had conversations even today with some countries that are taking a very expanded view of defense related spending,” US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in an interview at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia on Tuesday.
It was “very important” that the 5% target referred specifically to defense and defense-related spending and that the commitment was taken “with a straight face,” according to the envoy.
“It wasn’t bridges that have no military strategic value,” he said. “It was not schools that somehow, in some imaginary fantasy land, would be used for some other military reason.”
Quite right. Europe needs to wake tf up.
This is the ‚Is It Cake‘ for European NATO Allies, let’s call it ‚Is It 5%‘
Rare US W