This summit will go down in history. For being the most embarrassing case of boot licking ever witnessed on an international scale. Rutte the NATO general secretary, has many times already made himself look & sound like the pathetic globalist idiot he obviously is. But he has brought ridicule upon himself & the organisation. For over doing, what was clearly a planned worship of King Narcissist Trump. When a simple construction worker like myself can see the pathetic attempts to act like theyre in awe of the American mouthpiece. I'm pretty sure those with the slightest bit of intelligence could see through this act. What we've got to remember is, these people are playing with huge amounts of money. Our money, our taxes put in the hands of these compulsive lying corrupt officials. Why are we allowing these people to rule over us?
"...The increase in military spending to 5 percent, which for many European countries means a tripling of their budgets, places fierce social attacks and class struggles on the agenda. They will decide whether the warmongers prevail or the working class gains the upper hand.
Germany, which has financial leeway thanks to a low debt ratio of 63 percent, is trying to leverage this somewhat through massive new borrowing. The government has presented a budget plan that aims to achieve the 5 percent target in just five years.
But other countries, that are already heavily indebted, do not have this option. The United Kingdom and Spain, with debt ratios of 100 percent, Belgium with 105 percent and France with 113 percent, have not yet presented any financing plans. They will have to cut social spending much more quickly and ruthlessly in order to achieve the NATO target.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez initially refused to agree to the 5 percent target, but relented after Trump berated him and Rutte then offered him a face-saving compromise...."
The other implication of European countries burning money on weapons and gutting social programs - and privatising many public services and assets - in order to fund the spending on war and weapons will be the poor and middle classes will be hard hit:
"......It is a veritable war budget that the Merz government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), presented this week. It foresees a tripling of armaments expenditure within just five years. At the same time, Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) is increasing tax handouts to business owners and the super-rich.
The Merz government also plans to reduce corporation tax on company profits from 15 to 10 percent. This tax stood at 65 percent immediately after the Second World War, in 1947. Since then, it has been steadily lowered, and particularly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was virtually halved between 1998 and 2016. Now it is to be cut by another third, down to just 10 percent.
The colossal new borrowings envisaged in the federal budget will sooner or later be shifted onto the shoulders of the working class, whether through austerity measures and cuts to social spending or further municipal insolvencies. Schools and swimming pools, hospitals and care provisions, postal services and public transport are all being systematically run down...."
Meanwhile, the 0.1% in Europe will be in on the flood of money, like this example that Craig Murray points out, with a hedge fund owning and operating what is supposedly British Royal Airforce aircraft, and getting rich on it:
We can expect that many voters in the middle in Europe will flock to the extreme right wing parties, and internal tensions will rise in Europe, along with political repression.
The other part that is important not to discount - and Glenn discounted it wrongly IMO - is the money being spent on infrastructure. This is not all merely "shuffling numbers around".
If you go back to last year, the UK Telegraph revealed details of NATO plans for a ground invasion of Russia, with US support being flown and shipped in.
These NATO plans to collectively attack Russia, centred around not just military infrastructure but deliberately using civilian infrastructure - ports, airports, roads, bridges, railroads, warehouses, vehicles and so on. And obviously the way military technology is these days - they also plan to employ AU technology, massive data centres and so on - and the energy supply for all this. All of that is in theory "civilian infrastructure".
Here is one example of what that means in Poland, where they are building the central Europe's largest airport and intermodal transport exchange:
You actually need to understand the "infrastructure" component of the NATO spending plans in that light and not discount it as accounting tricks. It's not.
And they will slash spending on people, education, and social programs in order to do this.
Partly true, infrastructure has been rolled into that spending for a few countries to bolster the spend. Estonia is certainly the exception with 5.5% GDP spent already.
There isnt anything partly about it. The warmongering west has realized it actually hasnt the basic infraatructure in its society, nor even manufacturing. They cant produce weapons at scale, their roads and bridges and airportsand hospitals have been neglected for profit squeezing. Britsin has one solitary steel plant, and the US has hardly any shipbuilding capacity.
So their "leaders" have decided they need all this....not to help their people...but to wage war. Its all they know.
In the meantine more than a third of children in Berlin live in poverty, and going hungry is a veet common event for sschool age children in Britain. Go to the US and you will see hordes of junkies on the streets, and millions of homeless people.
But 5% for the killing machine "NATO" is their priority. Right....
Ah military Keynesianism driven by EU/NATO who are running around like headless chickens now USA have left. These political elite warmongers like Kallas, Rutte, Von Der Leyen supported by losers like Starmer, Mertz and Macron dont realise the world has changed and the USA hegemony is caput.
This summit will go down in history. For being the most embarrassing case of boot licking ever witnessed on an international scale. Rutte the NATO general secretary, has many times already made himself look & sound like the pathetic globalist idiot he obviously is. But he has brought ridicule upon himself & the organisation. For over doing, what was clearly a planned worship of King Narcissist Trump. When a simple construction worker like myself can see the pathetic attempts to act like theyre in awe of the American mouthpiece. I'm pretty sure those with the slightest bit of intelligence could see through this act. What we've got to remember is, these people are playing with huge amounts of money. Our money, our taxes put in the hands of these compulsive lying corrupt officials. Why are we allowing these people to rule over us?
Here is one indication of what it will mean:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/26/c778-j26.html
"...The increase in military spending to 5 percent, which for many European countries means a tripling of their budgets, places fierce social attacks and class struggles on the agenda. They will decide whether the warmongers prevail or the working class gains the upper hand.
Germany, which has financial leeway thanks to a low debt ratio of 63 percent, is trying to leverage this somewhat through massive new borrowing. The government has presented a budget plan that aims to achieve the 5 percent target in just five years.
But other countries, that are already heavily indebted, do not have this option. The United Kingdom and Spain, with debt ratios of 100 percent, Belgium with 105 percent and France with 113 percent, have not yet presented any financing plans. They will have to cut social spending much more quickly and ruthlessly in order to achieve the NATO target.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez initially refused to agree to the 5 percent target, but relented after Trump berated him and Rutte then offered him a face-saving compromise...."
The other implication of European countries burning money on weapons and gutting social programs - and privatising many public services and assets - in order to fund the spending on war and weapons will be the poor and middle classes will be hard hit:
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/europes-pledge-to-spend-more-on-military-will-hurt-climate-and-social-programmes/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/28/knbo-j28.html
"......It is a veritable war budget that the Merz government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), presented this week. It foresees a tripling of armaments expenditure within just five years. At the same time, Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) is increasing tax handouts to business owners and the super-rich.
The Merz government also plans to reduce corporation tax on company profits from 15 to 10 percent. This tax stood at 65 percent immediately after the Second World War, in 1947. Since then, it has been steadily lowered, and particularly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was virtually halved between 1998 and 2016. Now it is to be cut by another third, down to just 10 percent.
The colossal new borrowings envisaged in the federal budget will sooner or later be shifted onto the shoulders of the working class, whether through austerity measures and cuts to social spending or further municipal insolvencies. Schools and swimming pools, hospitals and care provisions, postal services and public transport are all being systematically run down...."
Meanwhile, the 0.1% in Europe will be in on the flood of money, like this example that Craig Murray points out, with a hedge fund owning and operating what is supposedly British Royal Airforce aircraft, and getting rich on it:
https://craigmurrayorg.substack.com/p/dystopia-uk-genocidal-royal-air-force
We can expect that many voters in the middle in Europe will flock to the extreme right wing parties, and internal tensions will rise in Europe, along with political repression.
The other part that is important not to discount - and Glenn discounted it wrongly IMO - is the money being spent on infrastructure. This is not all merely "shuffling numbers around".
If you go back to last year, the UK Telegraph revealed details of NATO plans for a ground invasion of Russia, with US support being flown and shipped in.
These NATO plans to collectively attack Russia, centred around not just military infrastructure but deliberately using civilian infrastructure - ports, airports, roads, bridges, railroads, warehouses, vehicles and so on. And obviously the way military technology is these days - they also plan to employ AU technology, massive data centres and so on - and the energy supply for all this. All of that is in theory "civilian infrastructure".
Here is one example of what that means in Poland, where they are building the central Europe's largest airport and intermodal transport exchange:
https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/poland-unveils-25-billion-mega-project-to-revolutionize-european-travel-with-world-class-airport-high-speed-rail-and-integrated-transport-hub/
https://navaxity.com/2025/06/cpk-poland-what-to-know-about-the-new-airport-and-transport-hub-near-warsaw/
https://airport-world.com/polands-mega-project/
You actually need to understand the "infrastructure" component of the NATO spending plans in that light and not discount it as accounting tricks. It's not.
And they will slash spending on people, education, and social programs in order to do this.
Partly true, infrastructure has been rolled into that spending for a few countries to bolster the spend. Estonia is certainly the exception with 5.5% GDP spent already.
There isnt anything partly about it. The warmongering west has realized it actually hasnt the basic infraatructure in its society, nor even manufacturing. They cant produce weapons at scale, their roads and bridges and airportsand hospitals have been neglected for profit squeezing. Britsin has one solitary steel plant, and the US has hardly any shipbuilding capacity.
So their "leaders" have decided they need all this....not to help their people...but to wage war. Its all they know.
In the meantine more than a third of children in Berlin live in poverty, and going hungry is a veet common event for sschool age children in Britain. Go to the US and you will see hordes of junkies on the streets, and millions of homeless people.
But 5% for the killing machine "NATO" is their priority. Right....
Ah military Keynesianism driven by EU/NATO who are running around like headless chickens now USA have left. These political elite warmongers like Kallas, Rutte, Von Der Leyen supported by losers like Starmer, Mertz and Macron dont realise the world has changed and the USA hegemony is caput.