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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Furthermore, in the negotiations, they have allowed a lot of infrastructure projects to be counted towards this percentage calculations. So, there may not be much in the way of new actual military spending, just improving the roads/rails of the agreeing countries. That seems a lot easier to sell to the folks that are further from Russia.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Spain even got an opt-out lol