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'We now know that British output shrank in January ... not enough growth, so not enough fiscal revenue, so not enough defence spending, at least without sacrifices elsewhere, for which there is not enough public support.

'The Spanish prime minister won’t cut a “single cent” of social spending ... The willingness of citizens to forgo private consumption or welfare for defence is untested, at best ... A consensus for more defence spending is worth only so much without a consensus for actually deploying force.

'Bar Poland, the countries on the continent that spend most on defence as a share of income, such as Latvia, are among the smallest.

'We don’t know what European citizens are willing to give up for rearmament. We know even less which ones will bear those arms, where'.

What's one of Europe's nicknames, 'The Empire of Values', right?
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