MSNBC Morning Joe March 17, 2022 11:04:00
Spending 2% of their gdp on defense. they wanted a demilitarized germany. everyone in europe after what germany had been through did not want germany ever to be a military power again. it took a long time, right up until this morning really for the rest of the west to accept that germany had a role to play in defense of security that was actually a military role. what they've gone through in the last three weeks has been a turnaround that i don't think anyone saw come. i don't think vladimir putin saw it coming and i don't think the rest of the west saw it coming, and the reaction from the wes...