Written by Madec Austern

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked outrage and economic reprisals from most of the international community and is bound to continue to drive the defence policy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)’s members for the foreseeable future. While they are more pressing matters to address at the moment, and the full scale of the crisis remains to be determined, one facet of the West’s response has the potential to have a long-lasting impact on European defence: Germany’s decision to drastically increase its defence spending by €100 Billion (Noyan, 2022).