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Next year, Poland will spend 5% of GDP on defense. Now the country spends 4%, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. He noted that Poland currently spends a larger share of its GDP on defense than any other NATO country. “Poland spends 4 (percent of GDP on defense – ed.), and we will spend 5% next year. We are number one in NATO, including the United States… because we are no longer in eternal post-Cold War peace,” the minister said. However, despite Poland’s significant spending, Sikorski warned against using military budgets as a barometer. For example, he cited Iceland, w…

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