Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war
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You are just naive in thinking that weapons can prevent a war.
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Yes a state judical system, but not you holding your neightbor at gunpoint, but that is basically what militarism is advocationg for on an international level.
If you will you contradicted your 2nd part of your post with the first one.
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What da fuq? No! Don’t they learn anything from last century?
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I hate it here
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You are just naive in thinking that querfronts can prevent a war.
I never said that I think weapons prevent wars.
Wars with erratic actors like Putin cannot be prevented, because certainty of peace is built on trust, but Putin cannot be trusted.
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Well worded!
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So your solution is just to lay down and die (pobably litteraly)?
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The country I live in tries to be prepared for war and so do many countries in Europe.
I and my in-group have a lot to lose when countries like Russia, USA or China expand their influence onto Europe, by indirect, hybrid or direct intervention.
European society is already split enough, it doesn't need further authority (from outside).
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I get what you're trying to say, but the thing about submarines is that you need them as a third element of the triad.
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Seeing what's been going on since the election I don't have high hopes
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Hey, we were on the right side last time too... politically
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It's a difficult topic but I believe the voices against it are just as important as the voices for it to keep it in check.
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We havent left the past behind us. We embrace it and make sure this wont happen again!
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Well, in reality its only a step back into the 80s when the Bundeswehr was quiet well armed, and one shouldn't forget that the conscription was only put on hold in 2010 and never really abolished.
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Germany is pretty confused. They continued doing lucrative business with putin even long after he invaded Ukraine for the first time, but now they are arming against him. If they could only have stopped themselves from funding the russian military for decades then maybe they wouldn’t need to be funding theirs now.
Hopefully those soldiers won’t be deployed to build nord stream 3 in a couple of years.
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You could say Germany isn't unique though. The US is also split between those who want to be friendly with Russia (Republicans) and those who don't (Democrats).
With Germany I guess Merkel believed that business ties with Russia would persuade Russia to not threaten Europe, but now that theory has been disproven, so Germans seem to be more supportive of the idea of cutting ties with Russia and boosting Germany's defence spending.
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Europe doesn't exist anymore after WW3.
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MAD only works if all sides have nuclear anxiety and the existence of nuclear weapons doesn't rule ballistic weapons out of existence, especially for countries without nuclear weapons (see Ukraine). I'm not advocating for nuclear proliferation here.
The equilibrium of MAD (as in "The only way to win is not to play") might be relevant for countries with nuclear weapons (i.e. Russia, USA, China), but telling the Ukraine defense that "The only way to win is not to play" is insulting and privileged.
Germany does not intend to test how far Russia is going with ballistic weapons and cannot rely solely on the power of MAD's equilibrium from France, NATO or USA.
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Is international law propaganda now?
No international law is international law.
The international court is interpreting international law.
Crying about Germany's support of a genocide while the Internation Court of Justice (and thus international law) disagrees -and lists factual reasons for their decision- however is a lie.
What do you call a lie spread to further your agenda again?
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No, there isn't a contradiction in the argument. There is one in reality: There is no independent authority (police force/judical system) making countries accountable for breaking the law. We tried to build something comparably up but on the judical side of things but those still lack the ability to enforce their rulings.
So it boils down to "fortifying your door" and being able to defend it against the few people really determined to tear it down.
