pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine

pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine

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leading SPD figures were warning of a “militarisation of foreign policy”, but Klingbeil and Pistorius both belong to the enthusiastically pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine wing of the SPD. As defence minister under Scholz, Pistorius called for a “war-ready” German army, warned of a possible Russian attack on NATO and pushed for a much larger defence budget. That points to the third cause of optimism: Merz has money. This topic was what ultimately brought down Scholz’s coalition, forced by Germany’s debt brake to fudge defence spending increases and to battle over domestic priorities to the point where the whole thing fell apart. But Merz’s bold move, in the final weeks of the outgoing Bundestag, to loosen the debt brake with SPD สล็อต