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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.”
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Good article.
I appreciate that this was the photo the bbc chose to express German concern over US Russian relations;
I also see Putin as quite very
Very, quite
Yes, shallow and pedantic.
Verily
I only see Putin as “really” but then I’m not German
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_God%2C_Help_Me_to_Survive_This_Deadly_Love?wprov=sfla1
I wonder, is it meant to look like the famous graffiti?
very well could be.
I did not realize that graffiti was based on an actual photograph.
Hand way too big.
great point. The orange should also be just the front of his face. the edges and neck should be his naturally translucent un-oranged wrinkly skin.
Liberal qanon loves the homophobic conspiracies.
qanon is wildly conservative.
and what’s homophobic to you about two guys kissing?
Germany, Italy, and Japan go to war against Russia and the US. Only this time the former group is the Good Guys.
Pearl Harbour 2 is gonna be sick
Italy has a grotesque far right wave RN, they are not the good guys still. Japan is not progressive enough compared to Germany, but I can believe Germany is far removed from being as much as a bad guy compared to the USA & Russia today.
Japan has never really reckoned with its past. They were just pacified.
I judge the country as a whole for this, since they keep electing politicians who continue to do very little to reckon with their past.
I feel a lot could be gained by apologising to the people and nations for the past, and nothing lost, other than nationalistic pride, bring forced into self reflection, and being genuinely sorry on behalf of the country.
People who think they shouldn’t apologise because it wasn’t them personally are stupid, frankly, and standing in the way of reducing tensions.
Will it fix everything in the region? No. Will it take some of the steam out of the war machine? Probably.
Is that why Japan is the only WW II participant who has not fired a shot in anger since August 1945? Japan learned, the rest of you fucks failed miserably and continue to do so.
Oh don’t get me wrong. The strong adherence to pacifism is laudable. But they have not reckoned with their atrocities committed during and prior world war II. They practically deny them ever happening.
Your whataboutism is not appreciated.
I do not want the Italians and Hungarians on my flanks.
They are not Registered Nurses.
Go back to WW1 and you’ll have a hard time pointing to good guys. Even WW2 was heavily sketch. The US was halfway in bed with the Nazis under Hoover and only at odds with Japan because it was encroaching on the British opium trade through Hong Kong and Shanghai.
These wars were, at their hearts, the end consequences of a century of industrial imperialism. The good guys were in Latin America and North Africa and the South Pacific, fighting for their independence and sovereignty.
Lieutenant George: The war started because of the vile Hun and his villainous empire-building.
Captain Blackadder: George, the British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganiki. I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved of blame on the imperialistic front.
You’re taking my shitpost comment way too seriously.
There are no good guys in war
Only this time the former group is the Good Guys.
Propaganda is crazy
You’re not suggesting that the Axis powers were the Good Guys in WW2, are you?
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I think you skipped over a comment in that chain.
You’re right, thanks
Only this time they don’t have enough population to left to fight.
It’s the Terminator 2: Judgement Day of wars.
It feels a bit weird being on the German side for once, also their track record of succeeding isn’t that great, but I love our neighbors and I fully support them.
I’m just, sad the world is falling into another world war while we also just could be more kind and forgiving towards each other. It would save a lot of lives and leads of pain and agony.
None of this would have been necessary if it wasn’t for republicans.
Not just republicans. Democrats in the US are right wing too. The entire country is fucked up, the reps just speed up the process exponentially. But don’t forget the most immigrants who have been thrown out was during Obama and Biden. Biden supported Israel too, with loads of weapons.
I call them the Republicrats and get attacked as being a centrist. That is the perversion of this situation is that I don’t think either part of our one party system give two shits about me. The only thing about the democrat faction is they are not trying to put people in real cages. Just trap them in wage slavery.
Right… As if incarceration didn’t increase during dems terms. As if there weren’t crimes against humanity in prisons and detention centers thanks to dems.
Its been increasing no matter who has been in office as long as I have been alive. Its never gone down. So your point to me is meaningless.
It actually went down during Trumps first term. That fucking idiot even failed in the thing he wanted most.
If only American OPSEC was clean.
So yes forgiving and all that. Here are the steps: 1 Putin removes his troops from the occupied territories 2 he apologizes 3 maybe someone forgives him.
Well yeah, but what I wished was that he wouldn’t have invaded in the first place, no totalitarian rulers, no people declaring wars as a dick measuring contest. No Putin in the first place. Putin will never give up and apologize, but hopefully he dies and his replacement would retreat, apologize and help Ukraine fix their country. But the chance of that happening is little to none, the next in line is probably just as bad as Putler.
They are good as long as they don’t have a demented drug user has their leader.
Check, no Adolf Musk as bundeskanzler
Trump did so much blow that his asshole fell off.
We are not the same Germany, with exception to the Prussian military discipline that is buried deep within us. Thanks to morons in DC and Moscow, they are forcing to break the pacifistic dam that we were force to build post WW II.
It feels a bit weird being on the German side for once
It should feel “weird” to support genocide.
That doesn’t feel weird, it feels totally fucked up. The Dutch government is the same, maybe not as bad as Germany but still. There’s a ban on supplying them with weapons, but the Dutch government is finding loopholes to do it anyway. I’m totally disgusted by it. Fuck Israel, bunch of fucking nazis. Out of everyone on this planet, especially them should know better.
I mean the track record is pretty good as long as you don’t just stop at the 20th century.
There were no world wars pre 20th century. But yeah, Germany, Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation were pretty successful pre 20th century.
They were actually multiple world Wars pre 20th century.
There’s a lot of money to be made from a war.
Yet it costs much more, and not just money.
USAmerica has made shit loads off war.
And the rest of the world had to pay for it.
I don’t see this as Germany leaving history in the past, but being smart to protect their future so the that the lessons of the past mean something.
Germans are on track to elect the AfD. Do you think them having a 500 Billion dollar army is a good plan?
A bit concerning if an AfD take-over can’t be completely ruled out.
Yeah I’m a bit tired of bought out politicians dismantling a country from the inside.
Probably the biggest loophole that HAS to be fixed!
That’s one of the reason governments shouldn’t have any power. Good luck when in the nearby future adolf hitler II becomes the president of a police state with an army ready for war…
It’s already hapoened in the US.
In 4 years. But still, shit. Hadn’t even thought about it.
I feel like this is a good idea but I also saw what Germany did to Brazil in that World Cup and there needs to be a plan for them going too far and hurting people just for living.
😂
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I feel like I’m doing ok. I want the Fediverse to happen and I imagine I have way more likes than dislikes. (I don’t know how to check.)
Sometimes, jokes don’t hit. Life has upvotes and downvotes and I accept both with the zeal of a competitor.
That’s the spirit.
But did Germany defeated Brasil in the cup?
Yes. And they didn’t stop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_v_Germany_(2014_FIFA_World_Cup)
It was mean spirited.
Ehh, they scored more than half of those points within six minutes, and six out of seven within the first half hour. They stopped trying to score after halftime and dampened their post-goal celebrations. It seemed like they really weren’t trying to rub it in, but Brazil was just not being competitive.
but Brazil was just not being competitive.
That’s quite the understatement: It was so bad Brazilian fans started to cheer for the German team. Which, under usual circumstances, only happens when we’re not playing against each other.
All in all it could’ve been worse for Brazil: It could have been Argentina. And it could have been better for Germany: It could have been the Dutch.
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Bater a mortos…
What was mean spirited? Your joke, or Germany winning 7-1? Because I don’t think either were mean spirited, and I’m Brazilian.
Germany winning 7-1. I was a neutral but kind of rooting for Brazil just to see a fun match and home fans celebrating. It’s always more fun when a team wins at home. And then minutes later. I thought “Oh no. Namar is out and Germany is the country least likely to hold back.” Brazil players looked dejected. Anyone with empathy felt for them.
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Maybe I’m a bit contrarian, which grows old but I try to balance it with sincerity and light jokes. I don’t have any particular agenda when posting on Internet forums, to be honest.
You do you as well. I would nominate “Meh, you do you.” as the Fediverse slogan if I had such powers.
You keep doing you. I found the joke funny.
If we’re all too afraid of downvotes to post our true opinions, Lemmy will turn into another echochamber.
It’s true, most of your comments seem to have a positive upvote score and therefore more upvotes than downvotes. Your Yale comment seems to have attracted the most downvotes in recent time, currently “-14” “upvotes”/points (seems that some lemmy clients just call them “points”)
So actually it seems that currently Lemmy itself doesnt support showing one users total upvotes/downvotes as this would very much resemble the reddit Karma system and they dont want that.
However as all your comments and the total sum of votes for each comment(I think also the bare numbers of upvotes/downvotes are visible via Api access) are public one could theoretically write a script or build this into a Lemmy client. However the 3 clients I just used to test this don’t support this and probably don’t want to.
And they did hold back that day, after the first 4 goals +/-, just to avoid embarrassing the host that much further.
This is not just about security, this is about safeguarding the last bastions of real democracy.
this is about safeguarding the last bastions of real democracy
Yea sure thing…
I think you mean white supremacy.
What’s your problem, dude.
Misleading title ass click bait type shit.
What the hell is with the Germans and austerity? They’ve been holding their own country back for over 15 years
Germany abdicated their monetary sovereignty to the EU, thus impoverishing themselves in service to international capital.
But their punishment and exploitation is nothing compared to Greece, etc.
What choice do we have? I would focus on improving everything for the regulars and copy the Finnish reserve system.
It didn’t take much for people to get brainwashed into war all over again
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-preparedness-the-road-to-universal-slaughter
Man what a great read, we really need more people like Emma Goldman these days.
Dear imperial media… You talking about this Germany?
They didn’t leave history in the past. They’ve been supporting genocide ever since.
Oh yeah. That’s it. They’re morally bankrupt. They shouldn’t be allowed to defend against a lighthouse for human rights and ethical behaviour such as Russia. Imperial media. Lol.
Great powers rearming will not be good for anyone no matter what the context is around it. After Napoleon, European leaders were so afraid of war between great powers that they avoided it for 100 years. The moment they let their guard up we got WW1. The weapons do not make us safer. Don’t think for a moment it can’t happen again.
Neither does passivism though. If everyone around you is losing your mind, you either give up your freedom and very possibly your life, or you fight.
The only reason no other great power has needed a fully prepared military is because of US leadership. That can’t be trusted now, so here we are.
After Napoleon, European leaders were so afraid of war between great powers that they avoided it for 100 years.
What kind of bullshit is this? The napoleonic wars were over in 1815. In 1866 there war the austro-prussian war, in 1870 the franco-german war. That’s barely 50 years, and those wars are just those I remember from history class. I’m sure there were more in between. Or are we talking Napoleon III who was deposed in the franco-german war in 1870? Well I’m pretty sure in the 100 years since then Napoleon there were some even bigger wars.
Sad to read that people are ok with this.
Stop contributing to rich people bullshit and step out of the system. Every other move will get us all killed.
That suggests you have an alternative, care sharing?
Yes. Dying for peace is way better than dying for war. Also stop buying shit, stop paying taxes, build and support alternative networks. Educate yourself and especially the young people around you. Stop building walls, start building bridges. The system only “works” because we believe it does.
Oh, you’re suggesting an anarcho commune.
I’m sure those will work.
will war work? No it wont so better to try something different.
Also no i do not mean an anarcho commune. But hey all is better than the slaughter for money we have at the moment.
O great the host is ready to play.
