European Defence Agency

The EU is also plundering social programs to fund the army, particularly as it escalates the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine.

Since 2021, EU-27 military spending more than doubled, according to the European Defense Agency, from €218 billion to €454 billion.

In Spain, according to the CIPRI institute, defense spending rose 121% over the last decade to 34.3 billion euros.

The ERDA disaster shows how, as countless billions of euros are turned to enriching the oligarchy and building up the machinery of mass killing and repression, society is driven to collapse.

The second one is that we partner with external institutions, including universities, research centers, or Ministry of Defence.

We also work on European projects or projects that are supported by the European Defence Fund or the European Defence Agency, which is extremely interesting because we work together with other European companies and we all bring different technological blocks.

We combine them and develop new a new solution.

So this is innovation.

No more dependence on America.

And then, and this number comes straight from the European Defence Agency, nearly 80% of what the European government bought for their militaries came from outside the EU, and about 60% came from the United States.

Almost 100% of the dialogue of the discourse the EU spends on strategic subjects is spent pleading with the US to send more of it.

Canadians need to understand that.

There is nothing to be gained by joining up with the military industrial complex.

It's heading absolutely in the middle of with a European Defence Fund, a European Defence Agency, a Partnership for Peace, which is a travesty of the English language because it's a partnership for war.

And our voices should be used over and over to stop the war in the Ukraine, to stop Israel, what they're doing, the genocide that's going on there.

And I'd like to hear our voices used for that, not sidelined into tinkering with a triple lock that is simply unacceptable.

That's why we have also today the discussion about the defense readiness.

I mean, we have the European Defense Agency that actually mapped all the critical capabilities and elaborates that we are missing, that we have to

fulfill.

So we know Poland pays for Ukraine's Starlink service from SpaceX, and its foreign minister did say this week that it could look elsewhere if SpaceX proves unreliable.

One is in, uh, battle-proven situations, so such as in Ukraine, where we're, uh, very proud to have delivered more than 2,000 systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and, uh, we get some great feedback from the Russians on that, uh, as well.

[laughs] Um, but also competitive testing in things like the Sentinel Strike exercise that the European Defense Agency is organizing, things like Fly Trap 5 that the US Army did, um, so you can actually genuinely see what works.

But once you see what works, you have to give meaningful contracts, and I'm not talking about innovation theater.

I'm not talking about homeopathic, those contracts that are never gonna get anyone over the valley of death.