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The new plan aims to modernize Greece’s armed forces as the country emerges from a decade-long financial crisis and tries to keep pace with the defense advances of its neighbor and historical rival, Turkey.
It comes amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on NATO allies to spend more on defense. Greece already spends more than 3 percent of its GDP on its military, more than double the EU average.
Mitsotakis criticized Europe’s approach to defense over recent decades, arguing that “Europe has been geopolitically naive” and “failed to understand geopolitical contexts.” The continent is scrambling to deter the challenge posed by Russia and to support Ukraine while Trump retreats from America’s traditional foreign policy.
“In 2017, the then and current U.S. president, in the peculiar way of expressing himself, spoke a great truth: that after the fall of the [Berlin]Wall and the collapse of socialism, Europe ceded its defense obligations to the United States, without the EU fulfilling its obligation to NATO,” he said.
“Europe cannot pretend today and say in this jungle that it is a herbivore in the midst of carnivores.”
Greece’s arms procurement, which will extend to 2036, will have a strong cyber focus and will include unmanned vehicles, loitering munitions, drones, a communications satellite, as well as an anti-missile, anti-aircraft and anti-drone defense dome called the “Achilles’ Shield.”
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