To kcdusk:
War and military take money. And you need to earn money as a state (by taxing your companies and citizens) by producing things and selling them.
We of the West believed McKinsey and outsourced everything.
So, the taxes to collect got smaller and now we are dependent on other countries.
And thats why we have no money because now we have to pay for everything bought abroad.
Yes, for the Greens and climate people it is nice, because we dont pollute the enviroment. The pollution is done somewhere else and worse than if we would be producing.Because we have enviromental protection laws and Nigeria (just as example!) has not.
And Mc Kinsey also is responsible for (example): Germany has only ammo for TWO days of fighting a war but needs SIX months to produce the same amount of ammo.
We have only a few factories to produce said ammo and the blogger BigCountryExpat once listed the factories in the USA who produce ammo.
Hint: Not many.
And that equals No Arsenal of Freedom like in WWII.
And does anybody want to guess how long it will take to bring the necessary industrial power back to our countries and reviving our military infrastructure to support armies like during the height of the Cold War?
Pro Guns doesnt mean Pro war. Si vis pacem para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
You need weapons to fight a war but ask any soldier and while he is willing to fight he abhors war.
My dad was 14 at the end of WWII and while he didnt tell me much about it (and he was not clear on certain parts but if I use logic it must have been very dark what he experienced), it is enough to convince me that the only war I want to experience is with PC games, board games and roleplaying games.
But make no mistake: If the threat would be high enough, I would fight. But why should I fight for the rulers of Germany of the last 20 or so years?
Germany has gone down the drain, massive immigration without us citizens asked by the government, the Declaration of Human Rights was nearly shredded during COVID - so the answer is no.
But now to something that I read and it shocked me.
I found:
https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichte...9890ad6a&ei=13 (in German)
and
https://time.com/7207661/bidens-ukra...zelensky-loss/
It asks if Ukraine was led into a trap by Biden.
According to a Mr Green of the security Council of Biden the victory of Ukraine was never a goal of the US government.
And the White House knew that Ukraine would never regain the territory they lost to Russia.
The only goal was to weaken Russia and to strengthen the Alliance.
Quote:
Wenn etwas ruchlos ist, dann die Tatsache, dass die Biden-Administration laut Time wusste, was sie tat. Sie schickte die Ukraine in einen militärischen Kampf, den sie nicht gewinnen konnte, und verhinderte – gemeinsam mit Großbritannien unter Boris Johnson – einen frühen Friedensschluss, zu dem sowohl Selenskyj als auch Putin damals bereit waren.
Translation:
If something was infamous then it was the fact that the Biden-Administration knew what they did according to TIME magazine. They sent the Ukraine into a war they couldnt win and prevented - together with England under Boris Johnson - an early peace to which both Zelensky and Putin were ready.
The witness to this is the former ukrainian ambassador to the USA Tschalyj.
They mention a study of the RAND corporation from 2019 (here I have to translate from german "Russland überdehnen und aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen" into english so it is not the exact title): To overextend Russia and destroy its balance
So, if this is true (and msn is no conspiracy site) - I know that officers sent soldiers to die - but extending a war even they clearly knew it was over - the last time this happened was WWII.