DW: SIPRI: Germany significantly increases military spending
More and more money is going toward the world's militaries, with the US and China leading the way. But no other top-spending country has increased its military expenditure year-over-year as much as Germany.
Global military expenditure reached $1.9 trillion (€1.7 trillion) in 2019, the highest annual sum in real terms since 1988. That sum marked an increase of 3.6% over 2018, the largest annual increase since 2010, according to the latest figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
In Germany, spending rose by 10% to $49.3 billion — the largest defense budget increase among the world's top 15 states when it comes to military expenditures.
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Update: German Military Spending Up by Double Digits as World Total Hits Highest Level Since Cold War (Sputnik).
WNU Editor: I guess President Trump's threat to remove US military forces from Germany and reposition them in Poland worked, especially when the Polish government signalled that they would approve of such a deployment.
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