Activists says the Ukraine crisis is playing into the interests of the military-industrial complex and being used to justify increases in military budgets.
has — you know, when it was first created in ’49, it was to keep the Russians out, the Russians — the Germans down and the United States in. That’s the very famous phrase that is often used. And, of course, the Warsaw Pact has been established six years later, but it was in the middle of, let’s say, when Truman gave his speech in ’47, let’s say, that made the difference, that started the Cold War.
And after, you know — it has already been said, I think, in the program today, but going further on in the ’90s, when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, and the Soviet Union also became dissolved, with 10 states coming out of it, many in even mainstream politics thought, let’s say, reinvented itself. It started, in late ’90s, to expand its territory to the east.
. And third, it started to be global by making a lot of cooperation agreements with countries and regions worldwide.reestablished itself as a global actor now, more and more, as a global force. And as Reiner said,. And now you see a big push towards allcountries, because this was decided in Wales in 2014, to increase their defense military budgets, and it will become even, in a few years, 60, 65% of all military expenditures in the world.
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