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Cohort - Exciting play on growing defence spend

September 2023

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Recent events, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine - the first military conflict in Europe since World War II - are regrettably far from over. The Kremlin appears convinced that Russia possesses the staying power necessary to sustain the conflict. In the light of Russia’s ability to sustain the war at its current level and the obvious risk that if Putin finds himself genuinely threatened he might resort to the use of a nuclear weapon, there has been an increase in defence spending for the first time since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, which had led European nations to drastically reduce their defense budgets. For instance, most countries had hollowed out their defense spending as a percentage of GDP ...

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