Isn't 5% the new goal? I'm not sure what is going on these days.

Yeah it is, since last June's Nato Summit. 

Deadline to meet that is 2035 though with a review scheduled for 2029.

UK is fully complicit, as usual

How Britain helped Trump destabilise Venezuela



During the early hours of Saturday morning, US forces bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Nicolás Maduro. This was a clear breach of international law, violating the terms of the UN charter which prohibit interference in and the use of force against sovereign states. Yet Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, has refused to condemn the attack or even acknowledge its brazen illegality. “I want to get all the material facts together and we simply haven’t got the full picture at the moment”, the prime minister told the BBC on Saturday.

Starmer then wrote on social media that Britain “regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime”. By contrast, it took him less than 24 hours to call Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a “war of aggression”. Former British ambassador Sir Richard Dalton told Declassified the government has failed to stand up against “the law of the jungle” with its “cynical” stance on Venezuela.

While refusing to condemn Trump’s actions, Starmer insisted there “was no UK involvement in this operation”. But even if British forces did not directly participate in the military operation, the UK government has been quietly backing Washington’s destabilisation efforts in Venezuela for years. Since 2019, Britain has frozen over $2 billion of Venezuelan gold in the Bank of England, sponsored anti-government initiatives, and even set up a secret “Venezuela Reconstruction Unit” to plan for the day after Maduro’s overthrow. Starmer is therefore not speaking in abstract terms when he says “the UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela”.

UK MPs explode in anger on government’s refusal to criticise Trump on Venezuela

The UK parliament has convened to discuss the situation resulting from the illegal invasion of Venezuela by the US military at the behest of President Donald Trump. This prompted many MPs including those from the ruling Labour Party to condemn Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his refusal to call out the violation of international law by Trump.

UK will be part of the Axis powers when it comes to WW3, Canada likely right behind. Carney is the same as Starmer on Venezuela. Anyway WW3 won't last long if it actually comes to that :/ 

Isn't 5% the new goal? I'm not sure what is going on these days.

Yes, or 3.5 % in direct defence spending and 1.5 % for other security challenges, but the countries are not supposed to meet that before 2035. The US also doesn't meet it yet.

Don't encourage them.

Relax, Capt. E

How can I relax when Canada could be invaded by a legion of idiots?