Comments by "Marvin Westmaas" (@MarvinWestmaas) on "Polish Military spending 4,2% of GDP IS INSANE! | Ukrainian War Update" video.
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I thought Hungary lead that statistic ( being the biggest EU leech ).
Poland has a large border with Russia ( bella or not, it's the same ). Poland has a history with Russian occupation. Poland has incentive. And Poland no longer has a government which thinks the EU is just there to take from.
For NATO, Poland was long seen as a member which would act as buffer if Russia would invade, not much more was expected of them then being able to hold long enough for the Germans, UK and France to organize enough of a defensive line in order to be able to wait out for the US expeditionary force. Now Ukraine has shown that we shouldn't believe the Russian propaganda machine about their capabilities, Poland wants to make sure Russia knows Poland would be such a tough fight alone and not just a buffer to contain them for a short while.
I'm both happy with Poland and the UK with their NATO contributions. I mean, with your logic, even if Poland is now investing in their military, they are doing so while taking the most subsidies from the EU so who's paying for this military increase in power?
The only country atm which shouldn't be in NATO but sadly is, would be Hungary. And maybe Turkey, at times.. but then they manage to squeeze out some more EU money and they agree since it's in their best interest. Orban usually does the same, but he knows he won't get reelected if he doesn't follow Putler, even if it means he will loose power the moment Putler looses power.
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Kurds are a drama, they should have had a country a century ago and still don't have one. In the mean time, every ally they had has stabbed them in the back at some point.
Turkey is important due to it's location. It also has quite a large and modern army.
Not every Islamic country is warring, or even close to being aggressive towards other religions. But as with all religions, there are issues when you make them a foundation for law and order, and it's especially a problem since religion is mostly abused by those in power. It's the perfect control mechanism for people who often have no real education.
Btw, Turkey should not be able to officially flip from being secular, it's in their constitution afaik. Something to do with Ataturk..
The problem starts when democratic values are no longer being adhered to. Turkey controls to much press, their elections are not on a fair level and thus they are not representing the actual will of the people. The same goes for Hungary, to a much bigger extent even.
Being secular by law doesn't mean much if no one actually follows the ( rule of the ) law.
Ow and not sure but I hope you didn't call Hungary a Muslim country? Roman Catholic, almost 40% of the population. Problem here is that they somehow think that THEIR religious believes should be basis of all laws. A non secular Roman Catholic country is just as much a problem as a non secular Muslim country, that's the main issue there.
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