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It looks like the new target is 5%
More like 3% and another 2% is for infrastructure. You only need to pretend that that infrastructure is really badly needed for defense, which is rather easy for a lot of it. Like say those are not metro stations, they are bunkers…
Metro stations are defense infrastructure even if they aren’t bunkers. Public transit directly achieves Baseline Resilience Requirements 2 & 7. It indirectly achieves others.
NATO’S 7 baseline resilience requirements: https://www.cimic-coe.org/handbook-entries/welcome-to-the-cimic-handbook/vii-resilience/7-2-seven-baseline-requirements/
Infrastructure = logistics = defense. Plenty of roads that need building in the north if we wanna be able to maintain a solid presence.
Northern roads are a tricky thing. Permafrost contains a lot of frost.
They’ll probably have to be gravel and maintained regularly.
Some modern subway stations in North America are so ridiculously deep, perhaps we could call them bomb shelters…
Ukraine has been using subway stations as bunkers for the entire war.
2% is quite a lot. 5% is madness. I hope that the costs of it start to become apparent to everyone and they reverse course well before they go that far.
Roadways are defence infrastructure.
Water is defence infrastructure.
Power is defence infrastructure.
Resilient rail is definitely defence infrastructure.
It’s very easy to get that other 3% – and actually get sovereign rail from coast to coast to coast at the same time, which we’d never get if it wasn’t a defence project.
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