There is a reason they were almost successful in winning WW II.
Posted on 09/29/2014 3:14:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A retired top-ranking German general said Monday a string of recent embarrassing military equipment failures shows the country needs to spend more on defense, as another aircraft breakdown came to light. […]
Former chief of staff Harald Kujat told rbb-radio the problem comes because the German military has been increasingly involved in large operations like in Afghanistan, but has neglected equipment maintenance and replacement.
Germany this year reduced defense spending by about €800 million to €32.44 billion ($41.30 billion)—far below NATO’s recommended level of 2 percent of GDP. …
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Germany needs to up their defense spending because in the battle between good and evil, the world may soon need them as the most powerful force for good. I am worried that the country that used to be a “shining city on a hill” and the “last best hope of earth” may become a nearly irresistible force for totalitarianism and for a single all-powerful and suffocatingly intrusive world government.
There is no reason to be loyal to the dirt we call the United States; our oath was to the Constitution. Once FedGov leaves that behind and leaves American ideals behind, our purpose in life should be to protect those ideals and restore them here, or help to revive them in another country. If FedGov becomes the enemy of freedom and Germany can be a military and economic counterweight to the behemoth in DC, I’m all for that.
Force for good? They’ve achieved economic imperialism via treaty and beggar-thy-neighbor in the European Union, their economy is the “social market economy” (which they regard as the enemy of the free market), and people think that if they re-militarize they will be a “force for good”. Curious POV.
If they gun up, they may become independent enough to secede from NATO.
Which has got to be on their minds, even just as a bargaining chip.
Because Germany has either got to find a way to force the US to disgorge its Gold, or forge an alliance with the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization, for those who don’t yet know).
Germany’s being credibly able to defend itself will become increasingly important in the years ahead - at least while America is under its current management.
The total armies of all the EU countries and Balkin countries adds up to less than the Russian Army...and that’s not even considering the weaponry.
Why spend money on the military in a socialist European country when the US taxpayer can pick up the tab.
There is a reason they were almost successful in winning WW II.
Obama has decimated the US military. He has also undermined it with this homosexual, LGBT, transsexual, anti-Christian, feminist agenda. Those policies have been as destructive (perhaps more) than his fiscal rape of our Dept of Defense.
The Republicans do not get a pass on this either: they wrote the Budget Control Act that punished Defense the most - even knowing that it had ALREADY been deeply cut by Obama in 2010 and 2012 by hundreds of Billions. Sequestration made it even worse.
Will never happen.
They will end up cutting another Ribbontrop-type deal with Putin and spending their money on social benefits.
Russia is a pale version of it's old self, and is no match for NATO.
I earned my German jump wings with German Special Forces, they were crackerjack guys.
We had a lot of conversations about our dads during the big war, I never dealt with the rest of the Bundeswehr but I sure liked the Germans I did spend time with.
Perhaps it is a curious POV, but given what we could become on the path our current leader has set, almost any counterweight is a good thing. I'm okay with economic imperialism if it helps decent people to resist socialism and communism.
Anything Obama does is in the spirit of what you describe as “counterweight”. Something tells me that the people of the Roman Empire that were tired of the homegrown corruption might have also seen the Huns and Visigoths as “counterweights” to their own government, so be careful what you wish for. The social market economy is no enemy to socialism in any form.
Think about what Molotov-Ribbentrop preceded.
Exactly, especially when the leadership of that continent is anti-freedom and generally anti-Israel.
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