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PhilM said:
Reinhard Gehlen helped set up West Germany’s intelligent service after the war and a few notable generals advised how to form and organise the Bundeswehr.
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The German army was run down for years. It is currently feeble. Money simply was not spent on it. Today, the money tap has been turned on. It is going into the German constitution. Scary times.
 
DualityNSNO said:
Necro Mancer
@666_mancer

Why lol

The next video by the user is "if you come to live by the sword you will die by the sword".

Also he's a "pro-terrorist" or whateverthef*...
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A reliable source!
A lot of (very young) Russian POWs are forced to answer questions before a camera. That stuff shouldnt be shared as it can be interpreted as treason back in Russia
 
FrenchDarrenBent said:
A reliable source!
A lot of (very young) Russian POWs are forced to answer questions before a camera. That stuff shouldnt be shared as it can be interpreted as treason back in Russia
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No, I'm not debating the user's reliability, just the use of names is weird. And the pro-terrorism tag also.

Anything can and will be interpreted as treason though, so that's not very relevant.
 
Drico said:
It changed today. What Scholz announced is the breaking of all German military taboos. Germany - the biggest economy in Europe - will now spend 2% of its GDP on its army and defence forces. They resisted this for years. Trump wanted them to do it - but the reality is 2% of Germany's economy absolutely dwarfs 2% of pretty much any other in terms of size. Germany avoided sending weaponry to war zones on a point of principle. This principle has now been thrown on the bonfire of taboos. The German weapons industry is one of the three biggest in the world. Those people are celebrating right now.

The truth of the matter is, Germany has little choice but to do this. Putin is an existential threat. Countries that demand Germany makes huge ecomomic sacrifices (turning off Russia gas pipelines, damaging their economy by excluding Russia from SWIFT) will now have to accept that the Germans will no longer be passive observers. Germany, finally, has to punch its weight. This is bad news for Putin, but it is also bad news for all of those countries, such as Poland, who wanted to benefit from the economic power of Germany within the EU - without the nasty side effects of German military might.

Make no mistake, there are elements in German society who will absolutely love this. They are in every society. But today is a game changer. German pacifism was buttressed by guilt and taboo. In the absence of the latter, how long more will the former keep things in check?
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The EU could start to splinter and we might be left with Pax Germanica
 
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