Posted on 05/11/2024 3:05:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Germany is considering introducing conscription for all 18-year-olds, as it looks to boost its troop numbers in the face of Russian military aggression.
Military planners in Berlin are in the final stages of discussing three options, two of which involve a form of conscription, according to leaked plans reported in the German media.
Boris Pistorius, the defence minister, is set to go public with the official plans by June.
In one of the options being discussed, Germany would bring back a compulsory military year for young men once they turn 18, which was suspended in 2011, and apply it to women as well. This would require a change to the German constitution, but is seen inside the ministry as most likely to receive societal approval.
Another option would only apply to 18-year-old men, but would not see everyone selected. They would be required to fill in an online form and could then be chosen for service, according to details leaked to Die Welt newspaper. This is seen by the defence ministry as “a strong signal” to both allies and rivals.
The third option would avoid compulsory service, focusing instead on “optimising” the current system by engaging in more proactive recruitment campaigns.
However, Mr Pistorious is believed to be against that route. During a trip to Washington this week, he said: “I’m convinced that Germany needs a form of military conscription.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes. The world spent the better part of a century trying to keep the Germans inside their own borders. Bismarck, the Kaiser and Adolf.
The "German" DNA is now diluted. Millions of Turks, Poles, etc in Germany today.
it’s all part of the satanic neoCON globohomo plan to kill off as many white Christian males as possible
They’ll be sent to the Ukraine meatgrinder or another pointless war.
No it wasnt. Germany wasn’t going to be an issue in 1945. It has always been an alliance against Russian aggression.
Nice try though.
Ah Lt. it’s you again. I’m not a scholar like you . I was a sgt. and you’re really a Lt?
“Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of (NATO), observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down.”*/*Yes. The world spent the better part of a century trying to keep the Germans inside their own borders. Bismarck, the Kaiser and Adolf.*
I’ll let you fellas deal with this stalker.
Sorry guys. Germany has already been conquered by Merkel’s pet s hole violent Islamists and Africans. It will not recover without massive blood shed.
If you had served in NATO you would know that our military focus was not in defending against our strongest ally that was shoulder to shoulder with us but against the enemy, that all of us were focused on.
Vacations in Ukraine
Really? Trump is still waiting for them to put in their 2% defense budget instead of playing us for chumps. Do they or do they not give their workers 30 days off per year which we end up paying for while our workers get 2 weeks?
What?
Germany is hitting the 2% mark this year.
“News of Germany hitting the 2% spending target came as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg praised an “unprecedented” 11% increase in defense spending in the 31-nation alliance.
“This year I expect 18 allies to spend 2% of their GDP on defense. That is another record number,” Stoltenberg said during a pre-ministerial press conference in Brussels.
He said this represented a six-fold increase from 2014 when only three allies met the target.”
That’s right.
“War is the health of the State.”
Randolph Bourne
Part of the reason was to make Germany a part of the alliance and less likely to isolate itself and do it yetvagain.
Well, there goes all those multiple vacay trips to Spain, Ibiza, Italy, et al.....
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