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Germany explores the revival of compulsory military service
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 03/07/2024 10:31:53 AM PST by davikkm

Get ready for a potential seismic shift in Germany’s military landscape! According to reports from Der Spiegel, Boris Pistorius, the head of the German Defense Ministry, is mulling over a proposal to reinstate compulsory military service. The move, if implemented, would mark a significant departure from Germany’s decision to suspend conscription back in 2011, opting for a professional military force.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; compulsory; germany; military
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1 posted on 03/07/2024 10:31:53 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Apparently the Russians need to teach the Germans another “lesson.”


2 posted on 03/07/2024 10:33:08 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: davikkm

Will German draft dodgers escape to the USA? {snicker}


3 posted on 03/07/2024 10:33:40 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: davikkm

Germany building a large army.

This always turns out well.


4 posted on 03/07/2024 10:34:20 AM PST by DarrellZero
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To: davikkm

I am really surprised that the Russians have not started to destroy all undersea cables to the United States. The US is so dependent on offshore IT services, data hosting, and multinational corporations that cutting those data cables would cripple the American economy.


5 posted on 03/07/2024 10:35:43 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: davikkm
"We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they've never bothered us again..."

I'll be interested to see if that includes their sudden influx of "newcomers". That could prove a two-edged sword, both a dangerous population to arm and a deterrent to more coming. Risky business.

6 posted on 03/07/2024 10:38:19 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: davikkm

Seems our elites are getting ready for WW3.


7 posted on 03/07/2024 10:41:30 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: davikkm

Once the Germans were all warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again

We taught them a lesson back in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then

-Tom Lehrer


8 posted on 03/07/2024 10:42:26 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: davikkm

In Germany it’s not an honorable and socially high regarded profession.

The Germans are cheap when it comes to defense, they don’t want to pay people competitive wages which would attract folks.

So for them FORCING people into the military might make sense in order to achieve a minimum manpower threshold.


9 posted on 03/07/2024 10:46:42 AM PST by Red6
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To: davikkm

“We’re getting the band back together.”


10 posted on 03/07/2024 10:47:31 AM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: davikkm

Achtung Baby!


11 posted on 03/07/2024 10:47:41 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: wildcard_redneck

I am not sure at all that WE should not want to cut the cables.

Russia doesn’t have to. This Biden cabal is doing everything they want.


12 posted on 03/07/2024 10:49:47 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: davikkm

This should go over really well in today’s Germany.


13 posted on 03/07/2024 10:50:12 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: davikkm

Trying to imagine being a German in Germany, where they welcomed in millions of Muslims, then turn around and force legitimate German citizens into the military fight for them and their insane country killing policies.


14 posted on 03/07/2024 10:54:15 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: davikkm

War slaves! Even the blockhead Germans aren’t going to war on the eastern front again. This is just drama, designed to make people afraid so they will support the agenda. They’re trying to act like invasion is eminent.


15 posted on 03/07/2024 11:03:31 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: dfwgator

The Germans are not German

WWI, the exodus after the Nazis came to power, WWII, the exodus after the war, the post war pacification programs in the East and West, stripping Germany of those areas where the German military traditions mostly come from (Prussia), mass immigration since 1950 (just Turks they have over 3,000,000), globalization which affects us all.

Today, Germany is something, they are an economic and political power, they have borders and a country on a map, but these people are culturally foreigners in their own land, they are in no way similar to their forefathers.


16 posted on 03/07/2024 11:06:46 AM PST by Red6
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The day will come where the only place the Volksdeutsche will be safe is Poland.

Oh, the irony.


17 posted on 03/07/2024 11:07:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: davikkm

Another “triumph” for Vlad Putin.

Finland and Sweden join NATO, and now Germany may reinstate the draft.

Russia was dominating Europe peacefully with oil and gas exports. Now they face a continent of enemy states.

Putin may be remembered as Russia’s single most disastrous leader.


18 posted on 03/07/2024 11:15:35 AM PST by devere
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To: Salman
They’ll go to Ireland.
19 posted on 03/07/2024 11:16:25 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: davikkm

Germany had the post-WWII draft for 54 years and ended it in 2011.


20 posted on 03/07/2024 11:22:18 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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