Unlike the Wehrmacht, the Bundeswehr is configured strictly for defense and is forbidden from operating outside Germany’s borders (Afghanistan excepted).
Not so the former East German army. Merkel must think she’s in charge of the latter.
“Unlike the Wehrmacht, the Bundeswehr is configured strictly for defense”
The Bundeswehr would be decimated by Poland’s armed forces. Who are they going to attack? The Germans do however have the technology to build thermal nuclear weapons in short order if she desired.
Exactly- the Volksarmee was meant to roll to Paris and turn the Champs de Elysee into Karl Marx Strasse