[pepsionice]

Having lived in Germany for fifteen years....I can offer this judgment on Germany expanding in Afghanistan. ZERO percent chance.

The Greens and SPD both have made exiting Afghanistan a major priority. In recent weeks, there’s been continual articles about German troops returning to the country with war stress. The public gets a dose of this catastrophic problem with German troops on a nightly basis with the state-run news channel. So any discussion about expanding...will be mostly laughed at.

I doubt that anyone in the German government takes Biden serious in his statements.

[FrankR]

Clinton closed a bunch of bases in Germany during his term, and I imagine that hurt the local German economies pretty hard. They might be saying "you closed the bases and hurt our economy, and NOW you want our help?".

And why is Biden doing all of this, I thought this sort of stuff was done by the Secretary of State or the President...Biden, what a dkhead.

[csmusaret]

Way back in the last century while I was serving a total of nine years in the BRD I was told their constitution forbid stationing the army on their own border much less in another country. Can you shed any light on that?