Europe must be rearmed. It is the message that he launched today in Munich the president of the European Commission. It’s not the only one. The German Chancellor also supports accelerating rearmament that, in reality, has already begun. “We Europeans must take much more care of our own security, now and in the future,” Scholz said. For the first time, defense spending by European NATO countries will reach 2% of their total GDP this year.

He rearmament It is a need that several European leaders have appealed to since Trump thus encouraged Putin to invade NATO countries if they do not invest more in Defense. “One of the presidents of a big country, he stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay and we get attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’ “No, I wouldn’t protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever they wanted,” Trump said.

The Minister of Defense, Margaret Roblespoints out that these statements generate a lot of concern. “That is why we within the European Union are working to have a security and defense policy, a consistent policy,” she adds. For experts, the problem lies in the shortcomings of our industrywhich force us to depend on third countries.

Yago Rodríguez, of ‘The political room’, points out that Europe has shown that it does not have the capacity to manufacture: “We have industrial wars like the one in Ukraine in which you have to be able to manufacture a lot and we have not had that capacity.”

But there are also critical voices that consider that this is not the path to peace. Jordi Calvo, researcher at the Center Del’as d’Estudis per la Pau, considers that the difference between the West or between Europe, the US and Russia was already enormous. “Itor has prevented the invasion from occurring of Ukraine,” he points out. Experts fear that increased defense spending will reduce public resources and, worse, increase the chances of new conflicts.