The Trump effect Germany makes bombshell NATO spending announcement following pressure from US president
Published: 01:36 AEST, 16 May 2025 | Updated: 03:05 AEST, 16 May 2025
Germany‘s new government surprised NATO allies on Thursday by putting forward plans to boost defence spending, to meet a target of five percent of GDP demanded by US President Donald Trump.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul made the pledge a day after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in office for just over a week, said his coalition government intends to have ‘the strongest conventional army in Europe’.
NATO chief Mark Rutte has floated a plan for members to hit the five-percent goal by spending 3.5 percent of GDP on military spending and 1.5 percent on other security measures such as infrastructure and cyber defence.
Wadephul, speaking at a NATO meeting in Turkey, pointed to Rutte’s proposal to reach ‘the five percent that President Trump demanded’ and declared that ‘we follow him there’.
In Berlin, Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil struck a more cautious note, saying that ‘we will spend more on security, but how much that will be we will see in the agreement reached at the NATO summit’ to take place next month in The Hague.
Roderich Kiesewetter, a former senior German military officer and a politician in Merz’s CDU party, called the announced move a ‘paradigm shift’, in an interview with the Bild daily.
He added that ‘it won’t happen overnight, but it has to happen’.
This is interesting News as Germany is a key part of the area of Magog referred to in Bible Prophecy that will be allied to Russia at the time of the end and will have a large army. President Emmanual Macron has also been on record saying that he wants to bring Russia back to the negotiating table and begin dialogue on some form of a Security Pact with Russia.
NATO must cease to exist and will most likely morph into the command and control centre for a European Army that is allied with Russia and with Russia taking a leading role to fulfil the Bible Prophecy that Russia will be a ‘Guard’ under Europe.
The Bible has long revealed that Russia and an EU Army will enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East. Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”. Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days. So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe. It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.
Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible as NATO must come to an end.
See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.
See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE
