The Guardian: A crisis that forces major European countries to step up their funding for defence could be a gift for poor budgets

It is hidden between the lines, it goes under in the crisis propaganda. But it is a well known way in politics to evade budget restrictions: talk crisis, provoke crisis and get all the money for the state budget. It helps also low rated governments to get some voter support.
Most, if not all European countries are in a difficult financial situation. The Guardian points to a solution:
A crisis that forces to spend more on defense is a gift to the treasury. If media and politics drum up the crisis and if talks and actions of the country’s leadership provoke the crisis to escalate, the treasury can take it all: higher taxes, new debts, without budget limitations or debt ceilings. Even better if other European nations are doing the same. Thank you, Guardian for the recipe.
That’s where we are today: And thank you, Selensky.
The direction is clear: fear mongering, war mongering, US-European distraction and anti-US rhetoric can help to convince voters to accept higher taxes, higher interest rates, inflation and currency losses, better even if all Europe suffers the same. Money will flow, more than needed for the specific purpose, as the Corona financial reaction has shown, so there will be plenty left for the government to play with. Yes, but the country is poorer afterwards.
Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, said at the last Munich security conference: “I will propose to activate the safeguard clause for defence investments”, explaining “During the pandemic, we activated the safeguard clause because we were in a crisis. I believe that we are in another period of crisis.”
Welcome to the EU Corona Management by Crisis, and look at poor Europe now. No need for a Ukraine Management by Crisis but we need Trump’s Normalization.