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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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Just don’t draft people & you good. A drafted military never fights well
Maybe, but a drafted one fights better than one that doesn’t exist.
How about you fight instead of dragging people to die in wars witbout their consent.
Oh wait, you rather sacrifice others.
Oh & there are more desertions in a drafted military
I mean I’d be there right with the other reservists fighting. Not that many options for a lot of countries, Russia is so much bigger and stronger than a lot of those bordering Russia that you need pretty much every man to do their part.
Don’t mistake me for saying drafting and war is good. Just that a drafted army fights better than a non existent one.
Yep and people will fight for their own lives
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.
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.
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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.
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.
It was deserved as well. Brazil’s players were cocky as hell.
At least before the match.
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.
1 - 7
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.
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.
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Germant repeats history. More news at 11.
for the first time, Germany possibly gets to be the “good guys” in a world war! Quite a turnaround.
Germany on track for the greatest redemption arc of all time lmao
With the Putin-loving, fascist AfD as the second strongest party in the country? We will see, but I do not have high hopes.
So my understanding is that they are the second strongest, but still at around 20% the other German parties formed a coalition that froze Afd out of power. So they are still a threat in future elections, but they have limited impact on policy for now.
Is that correct or have I got the wrong idea?
Yes and no. In general you are right, but there are municipalities in East Germany that had over 50% of the votes go to the AfD… which is still absolutely insane to me. I’m sure it’s the same in the USA, but cities tend to lean more left and rural regions tend to heavily favor the AfD (or slightly less/more right parties).
Mostly correct yes. The main danger lies in future elections.
I’d like to believe they’ll kick the Nazis out of the bar before they reach the levers of true power, but I’m American and you see how well having that naive hope went for us.
Having said that, I imagine the Germans are at least slightly more cognizant of the risks involved than we are. Difference between “It can’t happen here!” and “It has already happened here and it was bad.”
Having said that, I imagine the Germans are at least slightly more cognizant of the risks involved than we are.
Yeah one would think so, huh? But nope, right now nothing points to that. The last government declined to start the banning process against the AfD even tho the chances of success would have been really high. And that was a coalition of basically the labor party (as far as they think of themselves at least), the greens and some neo-lib shitheads. With the conservative government of right now? Lmao fat chance.
Fuck trump, he made world less safe in so many ways and now in addition to threatening Canada and Greenland he appears to be planning to stay a war with Iran.
And get this, the excuse is because they don’t want to negotiate suspending their nuclear program after he broke previous agreement.
for the first time, Germany possibly gets to be the “good guys” in a world war! Quite a turnaround.
what is this from I must see this immediately
also, yoink.
That is absolutely gonna be a relevant gif in the near future, I can just see it.
thaaaaank you, that’s goin’ in the seedbox
I mean, were they really The Bad Guys™ in WW1?
If they won they wouldn’t be.
From what I understand about WW1, it was just a huge clusterfuck
From my point of view, everyone was the Bad Guys in ww1.
THEN YOU ARE LOST, ANAKIN!
No we weren’t! - Belgium.
The Austrians were the bad guys in WW1. Germany just played European Great Power politics like everyone else.
Yes. There are actual letters and memos from german leadership about poking the Austrians into making the situation in Serbia worse in hopes a tiping point would give them an excuse to take swathes of Russia and France in the coming conflict.
Bonus points: methods for the handling of jews and other undesirables in the occupied lands were already being talked about
World war normally has not good guys. It is that Germany has gone so evil in WW2 that made all others appear the good guys. But in the end they all are evil (countries not people living in them, and no it’s not the same).
Because Germany is on your side?
Careful that you don’t draw the wrong conclusion.
who says I think Germany would be on our side?
at this rate, the US is looking more and more like it’ll jump into bed with Russia than the rest of NATO.
“good guys” vs “bad guys” logic isn’t much wise. In the cold war USA and germany recycled nazi and ss members to war with russia. World governments are all corrupted and have blood on their hands, none of them is really the good guys.
Remember the first persons to be harassed, assassinated, detained, sent to concentration camps were german citizen.
The first who tried to resist Hitler’s power, sabotage infrastructure, retrieve and send confidential informations to the allies were german citizen.
A lot of germans were the good guys in ww2 (and afterwards for that matter).
Whatever the conflict, let’s not forget that [country X leadership] is not the same as [country x as a whole].They’re literally supporting genocide.
you know that article is dated September 28th 2023, right?
now, I’m not saying Israel doesnt have a history of acting like bastards, but that’s just a wee bit before they started ethnically cleansing the Gaza strip.
Cue Red Alert theme
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
I only see Putin as “really” but then I’m not German
Very, quite
Yes, shallow and pedantic.
Verily
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.
Liberal qanon loves the homophobic conspiracies.
qanon is wildly conservative.
and what’s homophobic to you about two guys kissing?
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.
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.
I thought Germany was the EU’s economic powerhouse? No?
It is.
Finally back to the ostfront again!
I foresee a non-zero chance that this could backfire and their new ever-expanding military budget gets used on smaller weaker nations and then as an excuse to divert funding away from services that people actually rely on.
Germany, Italy, and Japan go to war against Russia and the US. Only this time the former group is the Good Guys.
Only this time they don’t have enough population to left to fight.
Pearl Harbour 2 is gonna be sick
Starring Cuba Gooding Junior Jr.
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
There are no good guys in war
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.
They are not Registered Nurses.
I do not want the Italians and Hungarians on my flanks.
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.
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.
It’s the Terminator 2: Judgement Day of wars.
A bit concerning if an AfD take-over can’t be completely ruled out.
In 4 years. But still, shit. Hadn’t even thought about it.
The AfD may be hard right but I can’t see any Germans getting in bed with Russia.
The AfD is in bed with Russia though.
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.
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!
The biggest problem with democracy is that voting isn’t mandatory, and 25% of any population is dumb as bricks.
I would estimate the number is higher than 25% (and growing all the time)
It took them four years to get the hint, but they got there in the end.
TBF they did get the hint but it took them a while to start doing something about it.
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.
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?
