Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "100 billion euros for Germany's armed forces: Why hardly anything has arrived so far | DW News" video.

  1. Me too, but if you're really going to thank God for anything, thank him that the armed forces of Russia has proven itself so incompetent for if it actually was even a fraction as capable as people feared it was, they'd roll across Europe in a few weeks. I have confidence in the Finns, the Swedes, the Poles and God love them, the Baltics, who couldn't do much but by God, they'd try damned hard. If we had to rely on the Germans, the French and the British to stop them, God help us all!
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  2. I hate to say it but I don't believe that Germany has the slightest intention of following through on any of its commitments to revitalize its armed forces. I don't care what they've promised. Politicians throw promises around all the time and not only do they not keep them, in many cases, they never have any intention of keeping them. For one, the political class as well as a very sizable chunk of the citizenry simply does not believe in maintaining a strong, competent military. There is a not insignificant proportion of German policy makers who want to completely and permanently eliminate any form of military capability and Scholz, being both a socialist and a committed "peace at any cost" pacifist, is at the head of that class. Secondly, actions speak louder than words. This money was promised over a year ago and practically nothing has been done. Also, you can't convince me that any country which was so late, so hesitant and which had to be arm-twisted so badly to send its equipment (not even its troops) places any real priority on a strong military. Finally, there is just so, so, SO much to do and it would take an efficiently run country decades and tens of trillions to catch up but with a country that moves at the speed of frozen molasses like Germany, they'll lose interest long before anything meaningful happens.
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