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.

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Remember how it took like two days to overturn 70 years of precedence of “no weapons delivery into crisis regions”?

    Oh, thanks. Yeah, now I remember making that jump, too, although it took me more than two days. Wild times.

    Hofreiter (Greens) put it quite well … something like … not our ideals have changed, but the world has changed, brutally so.

    I think you did well in dialing back my comment and adding more context, although I still think there was truth in it.

    • subarctictundra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Hofreiter (Greens) put it quite well … something like … not our ideals have changed, but the world has changed, brutally so.

      Now that’s the kind of Greens I like to see.