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  • Bulgaria Finally Achieves 2% NATO Budget

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 25 23:42:08 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.defense, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://www.novinite.com/articles/232012/Bulgaria+Achieves+NATO%27s+2+Defense+Spending+Target+for+the+First+Time

    In 2024, Bulgaria allocated .208 billion (3.964 billion leva)
    for defense, which represents 2.04% of its GDP. This marks the
    first time the country has met NATO's defense spending target,
    which was set in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea.
    The target mandates that all NATO members spend at least 2% of
    their GDP on defense.

    Based on the 2024 estimate, Bulgaria's GDP stands at 8.425
    billion, translating to a per capita expenditure of approximately
    9 on defense. While Bulgaria has achieved the NATO target, 16
    other NATO countries exceed its spending.

    . . .

    Bulgaria is fairly large and strategically positioned.

    On the other hand, HOW anti-Russian IS Bulgaria ?
    A number of eastern Euro countries show signs of
    missing the "good old days" under Russian rule.

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Apr 26 13:16:19 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.defense, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    c186282 <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    https://www.novinite.com/articles/232012/Bulgaria+Achieves+NATO%27s+2+D efense+Spending+Target+for+the+First+Time

    In 2024, Bulgaria allocated .208 billion (3.964 billion leva)
    for defense, which represents 2.04% of its GDP. This marks the
    first time the country has met NATO's defense spending target,
    which was set in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea.
    The target mandates that all NATO members spend at least 2% of
    their GDP on defense.

    Based on the 2024 estimate, Bulgaria's GDP stands at 8.425
    billion, translating to a per capita expenditure of approximately
    9 on defense. While Bulgaria has achieved the NATO target, 16
    other NATO countries exceed its spending.

    . . .

    Bulgaria is fairly large and strategically positioned.

    On the other hand, HOW anti-Russian IS Bulgaria ?
    A number of eastern Euro countries show signs of
    missing the "good old days" under Russian rule.



    No country wishes for a Russian invasion.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Apr 28 10:31:28 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics, alt.defense

    c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
    https://www.novinite.com/articles/232012/Bulgaria+Achieves+NATO%27s+2+Defense+Spending+Target+for+the+First+Time

    In 2024, Bulgaria allocated .208 billion (3.964 billion leva)
    for defense, which represents 2.04% of its GDP.


    Good for them.

    This marks the
    first time the country has met NATO's defense spending target,
    which was set in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Crimea.
    The target mandates that all NATO members spend at least 2% of
    their GDP on defense.

    Yeah, but that explanation misses an important point, which was that the
    2014 agreement was a ten (10) year plan. As such, the deadline to hit 2% wasn’t until 2025.

    This is important to note from when back in 2017-2020 that Trump was
    whining about the 2% goal that what he was actually whining about was how
    few had hit the goal *ahead of schedule*.

    Pretty damn ironic how we are now 7 years beyond when Trump started
    promising a new healthcare plan “in 2 weeks” .. as well as how we’re partly
    through his latest “3-4 weeks” revised promises of ending the Russia-Ukraine war “on Day One”, as well as similar quickies which haven’t
    even been resolved within his first 100 days of his second term.



    On the other hand, HOW anti-Russian IS Bulgaria ?
    A number of eastern Euro countries show signs of
    missing the "good old days" under Russian rule.

    Most of those “good old days” claims are due to Russian interference.

    -hh

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