Posted on 09/18/2022 12:38:24 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
ermany is ready to take a leading role in ensuring Europe's security, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, vowing to transform the country's military into the "best equipped" on the continent.
Branding Vladimir Putin's Russia the "biggest threat" to NATO, Scholz said Europe had to be prepared to face up to the challenge.
"We are making it convincingly clear: Germany is ready to take on leading responsibility for the security of our continent," he told an army congress.
"As the most populous country with the greatest economic power and as a country in the middle of the continent, our army must become the cornerstone of conventional defence in Europe, the best equipped force in Europe."
Haunted by two world wars, Germany has always trod lightly and quietly on the world stage when it came to conflicts and military matters.
Scholz said the German army had for too long taken on roles such as "drilling wells, ensuring humanitarian help, stemming floods, also helping with vaccinations during the pandemic".
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What he missed in this speech...is that somewhere in the budget, some government agencies will have to take cuts of a significant nature. Once this is realized, the sentiment will go ‘south’.
Deutschland über alles...
Yeah, what ScholzIdiot also failed to mention is that the Germany economy is steadily imploding along with its industrial production complex......
One of the biggest historical mistakes in history was allowing a nation that started 2 world wars to exist. It should have been destroyed for good as a nation state. Europe will rue the day that the German army gets off the leash
‘’ Wenn Wir Marschieren’’....
The Ukrainiacs on FR will see a dominant German army as a good thing. Anything for the cause in Ukraine. If I were Poland I wouldn’t put my eggs in one basket. Islamo crazies will be a big part of the German arny in decades to come due to demography. German arrogance and islamism. Look out
Gee what could go wrong?
Hitler and Islam and the Turkish model. German and Turk fusion https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-ataturk-in-the-nazi-imagination-by-stefan-ihrig-and-islam-and-nazi-germanys-war-by-david-motadel-1421441724
Only about 3 decades from now Germany may have the largest muslim population in Europe, with around 20% of people in Germany connected in someway to islam. Think about how that will change the landscape. The attitudes. By 2075 1/3 may be muslim. Imagine an army with ranks of young muslims.
Growing number of muslims in the bundeswehr https://m.dw.com/en/being-muslim-in-germanys-bundeswehr-means-no-pastoral-care/a-54317757
Germany will just get rid of them in war.
Germany survived WWI and WWII and communism.
This is, in context, a tiny blip.
If Germany wants Panzer Divisions again it will have them.
Putin woke things that we will probably marvel at, in a few years. For better or worse.
Germany was reduced to be a slave state to the Anglo-Saxon conquerors. Now it is one of the EUSSR and has to feed the deadbeats of Europe (and increasingly, the whole world).
German arrogance? Am I supposed to laugh bitterly or to cry now?
:-)
Putin didn’t wake up anything. Germans have an urge to dominate in their national psyche. Prussianism. Nazism, pan Euroism, Greenism.
Germany Runs the EUSSR.
It owns the Euro and dictates the terms of trade, in the EU anyway, keeping costs high in other countries, favoring German exports and IP.
The EU is a Franco-German partnership, of which France is junior.
Check out, for instance, historic unemployment rates and per capita Gdp.
Germans always laugh when they are called arrogant.
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