Posted on 03/31/2025 6:51:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, recently got the all-clear for a massive increase in investment after parliament voted to exempt defence spending from strict rules on debt.
The country's top general has told the BBC the cash boost is urgently needed because he believes Russian aggression won't stop at Ukraine.
"We are threatened by Russia. We are threatened by Putin. We have to do whatever is needed to deter that," Gen Carsten Breuer says. He warns that Nato should be braced for a possible attack in as little as four years.
"It's not about how much time I need, it's much more about how much time Putin gives us to be prepared," the defence chief says bluntly. "And the sooner we are prepared the better."
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has changed thinking in Germany profoundly.
For decades people here have been raised on a rejection of military might, acutely aware of Germany's past role as the aggressor in Europe.
"We started two world wars. Even though it's 80 years since World War Two ended, the idea that Germans should stay out of conflict is still very much in many people's DNA," explains Markus Ziener of the German Marshall Fund in Berlin.
The twin "wake-up" alarm – of the Russia threat and an isolationist, disengaged United States – is now ringing loudly for Germany, the general argues, and can't be ignored.
"Now it's understandable to each and every one of us that we have to change."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Hey EcoKrauts — let us know how those solar-charged EVPanzers work out for ya, ‘kay?
Sieg Heil! Once again you fools.
gotta wonder how many solar panels would have been required to run a tiger II
“gotta wonder how many solar panels would have been required to run a tiger II”
Needs a CO2 scrubber on that muzzel as well to stay green.
Can solar panels run a German mess hall cooking Halal food for the enemy within Germany?
Here we go. Keep in mind that Russia has NOTHING TO DO with this militarization of Germany, as they literally have NO INTEREST in Western Europe, which is in the process of turning into an impoverished dump with literally NOTHING to offer the world except a bunch of castles from 1000 years ago. Besides, Europe GLADLY demilitarized themselves during the last 3 years by giving everything to Ukraine - thereby ADMITTING that they don’t need a defense against Russia.
The REAL REASON for this militarization is to keep control of the rapidly disappearing White population in Western Europe, as the European Fascists cannot always count on locking up potential “Enemies of the People”, as they’ve just done with Marine LePen (and just earlier in Romania), as it’s likely that some ‘Enemy’ will sneak through the electoral process in Europe and pose a threat to their empire, and like the Soviets had to do in 1956 and 1968, the European Fascists need to be able to “roll the tanks” into that country and eliminate the problem, by force. That is why they now need a military.
are you kidding?
Their “conscientious objector” numbers are up thousands of percents.” And there’s not even a war yet!
Then there’s all the marxists who’d rather be under russian rule than dead.
But Russia has taken only 1/4 of ukraine (a trash country) in 4 years.
They are not invacing Europe.
It’s just the one world order pushing it...need the disarray and billions made from war.
Purely a Eurofantasy to think Russia will go beyond Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have a shared history and ethnic identity. This war more resembles an internal struggle than an aggressive expansion.
Their plan is a thirty year conventional war and when Russia goes bankrupt break it into five pieces. They are counting on Russia not going nuclear. If I were Russia I would go nuclear before surrendering. But that’s just me.
You can be quite certain young German men will be gung ho to go off to war to be maimed by loitering munitions and immolated by fuel air bombs only for their homeland to become the next caliphate. Not.
“those solar-charged EVPanzers”
Hey, it’s overcast today. we surrender!
I have a West German toaster, it isn’t very old.
****If I were Russia I would go nuclear before surrendering.****
Surrender to who? What are you talking about and, why the hots for Russia to nuke us?
I have a German friend who stated “There are no REAL men left in Germany. They have all been neutered by our society.”
Germans were told that German citizens in foreign countries were being assaulted and raped and Germany needed to protect its own.
German young men joined in groups from their respective communities. They joined as peers.
Now we have the internet and it's not so easy to control. It's a whole different ball game.
The only twist I'd add would be leaving Berlin wholly in the East to ensure the Keiserhof gang doesn't get reanimated.
Hey EcoKrauts — let us know how those solar-charged EVPanzers work out for ya, ‘kay?
Hey EcoKrauts, does tomorrow belong to you?
Do any young German men have any testosterone? Lots of pictures it seems it is one big pride fest type stuff.
The fuel system leaks everywhere, it’s a piece of junk.
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