A “craft burger” with fries is 15€ in Germany. And normal burger meal is like half that.

You were the one who brought up colonial endeavors when I only said we should be wary of superpowers like the US, Russia and China. And when I called you out for deflecting and going off topic, you accuse me of trying to defend genocide. Are you for real?

Make birth control free worldwide and it will at least significantly decrease population growth, maybe even reverse it. Depopulation shouldn’t involve suffering.

How about you stop with the whataboutisms and stay on topic. As belligerent China has been to it’s neighbors and has illegal police posts in Europe to threaten dissidents, we need to be wary of the PRC.

Your second paragraph is just straight up whataboutism. European wars the past few hundred years doesn’t justify Russia invading Ukraine. Someone doing something bad isn’t a justification to continue bad behavior.

There are better ways to depopulate, such as antinatalism. Murder and war is not an ecologically friendly way of depopulation.

Any superpower is a threat.

2% defense budget is nothing though.

Potential invaders like Russia or the US. Or in the future: China. But in Europe a nation just 1500 km away attacked it’s neighbor in 2022 and the war is still ongoing.

I’d say depends on which one and what lobby work they have done. If it is from the US or Russia, it is probably a big no-no.

If it is a European or South American defense contractor or weapons manufacturer, it varies.