If they manage to make the place safer, demolish crime etc - democrats are in real trouble:
It means democrats could fix their crime problems any time they want easily, but instead they want the crime - which would crash their already low approval rating.
it's FBI/ICE that's actually committing crimes in DC right now, abducting people without cause, based on racial profiling, not reading them miranda rights, refusing to identify themselves or to wear a badge, hiding their faces, abducting people not accused of any criminal offense (immigration is a civil affair) to private prisons in other states and denying them due process and access to lawyers.
the biggest crime wave in DC of course was on January 6 2021 where hundreds of people committed crimes ranging from tresspassing to vandalism to high treason, 100% of whom were pardoned, the majority of them pardoned of serious felonies.
So Democrats have no trouble whatsoever in DC and this is 100% looking bad for the GOP. The GOP's only hope is to render elections useless by next year which they're well on their way to doing.
The fact that you think that's a big number just underscores how dire Europe's security situation is at the moment. One hundred billion Euros sounds like a lot, but China spends two and a half times that much on defense every single year, the U.S. spends 10X that much every single year, and even the Russians spend more than that every single year. Nevermind the fact Europe needs to play catch up here, not just keep pace.
Wikipedia says Russia spent 100 billion in 2023, so increase of 100 billion should be more than that don't you think? Are you misinformed or deliberately lying?
You have to adjust figures for PPP, or Purchasing Power Parity, due to exchange rate differences. In 2024, Russia's PPP adjusted military spend was somewhere between $300B and $400B [1][2]. Their technology is also vastly superior to Germany's and they have a much larger personnel. It doesn't matter how much you spend if you don't get your money's worth.
