“To accept a military hegemony”: German Defense Minister breaks the taboo of rearmaments

Her Germany needs to accept “a military hegemony”, the country’s defense minister pointed out on Monday Christine Lambrecht in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. Statements of “military hegemony” are unprecedented, as a Germany – military power was once a taboo subject for previous generations in the wake of Nazi militarism and Adolf Hitler’s wars of aggression.

“Germany must meet NATO’s long-term military spending target of 2% of GDP yet and after exhaustion of the special fund of 100 billion euros, and to accept a military hegemony which it has avoided until now” said the Minister of Defense characteristically.

“2% of our GDP for our security… we need this money without ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’, and we need it for the long term, so that the effort we are making with the 100 billion is not in vain,” clarified Christine Lambrecht.

“We need to prevent a situation where, in a few years, we won’t be able to afford to maintain the equipment we’re buying now,” he explained.

Besides, the German Defense Minister refused again requests to supply Kyiv with tanks. “No country has so far supplied Western-made infantry fighting vehicles or tanks,” he said. “We have agreed with our partners that Germany will not take such action unilaterally,” he said.

It is noted that the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of Germany) is scheduled to receive 100 billion euros for investments and equipment projects from the federal budget through a special fund, as Chancellor Olaf Solz announced in February.

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