>>212144842The 5% figure is to please the senile old man and make him fuck off, it's more like 3,5%, which is still high but not astronomically so, the 1,5% is auxiliary.
>forming our own European armyEU members can barely agree on what day of the week it is, forming a unified army is about as credible and realistic as Burundi launching a space mission to colonize Mars.
>making military deals with multiple countriesIdk about you but we're already doing that, we're dealing with US, EU and also South Korea, Turkey, Britain, Japan, etc.