We should be happy that the defense budget has increased. We have one of the largest defense budgets in the EU, measured as a percentage of GDP,” admits Tālavs Jundzis, academician, lawyer, political scientist, in the TV24 program “”.
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But he warns that the announcement that in three years defense will be 3% of GDP is presumptuous and too emotional.
“The defense depends on the health, protection and care system, how to fix the teeth of those potential and existing soldiers, education is also important and much more. This increase should not be exaggerated,” said the political scientist.
The second thing, I look at this year’s military budget, almost 70% of the entire budget, which is currently 1.2 million, is spent on personnel maintenance. Only 30% remains for investments, purchase of armaments – this worries me.
“Why does the staff spend so much money, he draws parallels with the introduction of compulsory service. Yes, all guys should go to serve, emotionally it is right, but how effective is it? Now we need money for the air defense system, we need professional soldiers, officers who operate these complex systems, which cannot be learned in one year – here the question arises, is this a task today, what to do?” he asks.
A few days ago, we all saw on TV how our defense system digs the big anti-tank ditches that the Russian tanks will not be able to overcome.
“First of all, Yundzis points out that tanks cross rivers, let’s start with that. Second, it’s such a show off. We have more important things to do in defense than digging ditches at the border,” the lawyer believes.
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