Greece Buys Israel Rockets While Emerging From Debt Crisis
Al-Monitor confirms Greece's parliament approved a €650 million purchase of 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel. This comes as Greece allocates €28 billion by 2036 to 'modernize' its armed forces, ostensibly to keep pace with Turkey and emerge from a 2009-2018 debt crisis. It's a curious priority shift: from economic austerity to military spending, almost as if fiscal responsibility is
for the peasants, not the defense contractors. While Greece struggles to shed the shackles of a decade-long debt crisis, pouring hundreds of millions into advanced weaponry from a nation known for its 'battle-tested' equipment (a euphemism for being used against a largely civilian population) raises questions. One might ask if the 'modernization' is for national defense or simply to inject
liquidity into military-industrial complexes, both foreign and domestic. Clearly, some 'crises' are more profitable than others.