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Global Defense Spending Soars Amid U.S. Policy Shifts

Defense spending is surging worldwide as nations respond to shifting U.S. policies and geopolitical tensions. Former Australian defense minister Kim Beazley has urged the Albanese government to increase military spending to meet U.S. expectations. Meanwhile, European defense stocks are rising as war-related expenditures grow, particularly with U.S. support for Ukraine now uncertain. The Trump administration is also considering new tariffs and is engaged in critical discussions on Ukraine aid. These developments highlight the increasing financial and strategic pressures on global defense alliances.

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Kim Beazley urges Albanese government to lift defence spending

https://theaustralian.com.au

Labor’s revered former defence minister Kim Beazley has warned that the Albanese government needs to lift military spending to at least 3 per cent of GDP in line with US ­demands, as Donald Trump ­prepares to strain the ­two nations’ ties by slapping tariffs on Australian exporters.

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Surge In War Spending Sends European Defense Stocks Soaring

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The U.S. has poured more than $120 billion into Ukraine since the war began, but with a new administration in Washington, that support is grinding to a halt.

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Trump presidency latest: New tariff threats, funding bill fight and Ukraine talks

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Top Trump administration officials will meet with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia Tuesday. Meantime, House Republicans are working to pass a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week.

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Porn stars launch campaign against Project 2025 targeting swing states

Concerned with provisions of Project 2025 that could criminalize pornography, a group of porn stars is jumping into the 2024 election, launching “Hands Off My Porn” and purchasing $100,000 in ads in swing states to spread their message. “We must fight back against this ultra-conservative agenda that is rooted in religious conservatism, fearmongering, and the suppression of women’s rights,” Casey Calvert, one of the porn stars involved with the effort, wrote alongside the announcement of the ads. Twenty porn stars came together to found Hands Off My Porn, and they are placing the ads on sites that show explicit content in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan, warning users about Project 2025’s drive to criminalize porn.The ads will direct people to the Hands Off My Porn website, where they can watch testimonials about Project 2025’s dangers. “This ‘180-day playbook’ for the next Trump Administration puts the anti-porn agenda front and center – on page 5 of this nearly 1000-page document that’s endorsed by The Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch Brothers, and hundreds of conservative organizations,” the group writes online.Hands Off My Porn is referencing the foreword written by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who calls for pornography to be “outlawed.” “It has no claim to First Amendment protection,” he writes. “Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned…telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

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