Translated and subtitles by Scott Humor.
We have received an interesting data in regard with the saber-rattling NATO drill in Norway.
German army admits most of its newly acquired military hardware is faulty & unfit for service.
Why would it be so?
The Western Media headlines are screaming that NATO has never hold military exercise on the scale of the Trident Juncture. Under the aegis of a “unifyed 3-prong pitchfork” NATO has gathered servicemen from 29 countries members of the alliance plus formally non-NATO members Finland and Sweden. I think you have seen the numbers.
An active phase of this military excise will take part in Norway and the North Atlantic regions, in the Baltic Sea near Denmark and in the airspace of Finland and Sweden. Some 50,000 troops from 31 countries, about 10,000 combat vehicles, 65 ships and some 250 aircraft are taking part in the drills that kicked off last week and will go on till November 7.
The showoff of strength? Without a doubt. I am sure this show will make pro-American Eastern European stooges very happy. “Look at our overlords,” they might say. “They are the strongest in the world. They will bend you over, damn Moscals, with one left hand. Piu-piu” … And so on.
But all this is on a surface level. Let’s look what exactly is gong on with one of the NATO’s members, Germany.
“Out of 97 pieces of military equipment delivered to the Armed Forces in 2017, only 38 are fully operational, the German Defense Ministry acknowledged, in response to a parliamentary inquiry. The proportion of working equipment works out at about 39 percent.”
Oi! Wait a minute. If the liberals to be believed it’s Russia where everything is rusty and wooden and German machinery is the coolest, per default. Germany builds its own weapons. Could it be that good German Bürgers are selling junk to the state?
“The ministry hopes to boost these figures to 70 percent. The cutting-edge Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV) and the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft is what concerns the German military the most. The quality of new military equipment “still needs further improvements,” said the Parliamentary State Secretary for the Ministry of Defense Peter Tauber.”
“Only 27 out of 71 Puma IFVs delivered to the army in 2017 were actually combat-ready. Out of eight A400M aircraft delivered to the German Armed Forces, only 4 turned out to be ready for deployment. Only two out of seven ‘Tiger’ strike helicopters are ready for service; in the case of the NH90 transport copters, it’s four out of seven.”
Remember how in 1990s, there was a trend in Russia to label “Euro” everything to stress the exceptional quality of merchandise. We had “euro-house repairs,” “euro-fighters,” “euro-copters.” And here we see that 3 out of 4 or 70% of new fighter jets delivered to the troops are found to be not combat-ready. This is in a country with an annual defense budget in 37 billion Euros or $45 billion, which is on the fifth place in defense spending in the world.
So, what’s going on?
I have an idea.
Let’s set aside a working version that Europe is also a subject to a trivial theft from the state coffers. We are being left with only one possibility.
Germans are watching NATO’s military buildup on Russia’s border and understand that NATO, with the US at its helm, capable to start a war against Russia. Germans had already fought against Russia, and they really don’t need this. Let’s assume that the Deputy Federal Minister for Defence of Germany gets the defense manufacturers in his office and tells them something like that:
“So, meine Herren, let’s be frank, we are not ready to fight a war against Russians.”
“How exactly not ready are we?” ask disciplined manufacturers.
“We are not ready at all,” says the deputy minister. “We have only 39% of all new equipment functioning.”
“But we had at least 80% of equipment functioning,” the manufacturers try to correct him.
“No, you have an outdated data,” the deputy cuts them off. “We looked closely and realized that it’s only 39%, verstehen?”
“Jawohl! Herr gruppenfuhrer! Or, not a “gruppenfuhrer,” but still “Jawohl”
And the army keeps receiving faulty machinery.
“If tomorrow is a war against Russia, no one is ready due to some circumstances absolutely beyond our control, Mr. President of the Unites States.”
“Our Infantry Fighting Vehicles failed to start, and our fighter jets are not flightworthy. The reason, we suspect, are the Russian hackers. We manufacture the most advance technologies and they are very crafty. We wish you all the cheers, successful occupation of Moscow, without us, and a festive mood. We are right behind you, if we fix our equipment. Unfortunately, we have a shortage of mechanics, because our youth prefers to major in the Gender Studies and not engineering. Hello? … Hello? … What’s going on? Oh, Putin got back to you? Tell him, if you can, that we weren’t a part of it.”
How do you like my version of events, my friends?
It’s either that, or we have to assume that the famous German quality is a myth and that they also steal from the state budget.
But, that’s impossible, isn’t it?
P.S. Russian Bear bomber gate crashes NATO’s largest drill since Cold War (PHOTOS)
Et soudain, un Tupolev au-dessus du navire-amiral de l'#Otan: la Russie s'invite dans les grandes manoeuvres #TridentJuncture18 (photos exclusives de @jnackstrand) https://t.co/ZJthkcDhcT #AFP pic.twitter.com/eIgCoRUTFG
— P_Deshayes (@P_Deshayes) November 3, 2018
They didn’t see Russians coming.
Ita vera
Very plausible.
As a german I can say that the army purchases have been in the news for years, I cant remember when there were no conplains about the readieness of the equipment.
On the other hand, its a more expensive to keep things at 100%. Its cheaper to keep it low in peace time and higher it in wartime. So its part strategy and part incompetence. Personally I think the private weapons manufactures need to make money and if they cant make it by selling large numbers because of the end of the cold war and peace dividends they need to make the money in service. With the rise of neoliberalism there is proably also a shift to make more money even if its one the back of the own country to please the stockholders.
The position of germany is a bit of between the tables. They dont want to distub the releations to the USA but its clear that the people dont want war. On the other hand the media is anti putin and everybody who is against the russia sanctions becomes a media pariah and gets friendly fire form party friends. So dont expect a more closer relationsship with russia coming from a german party. The new chancellor could be the USA atlantic counsel and blackrock man merz. The likely coalations party greenparty is anti putin ( mainly because gay rights, pussy riot,syria bombings, krim usw.), the other party the liberals have some russia friendly tones but they got attacked in the press for it and thus stopped saying that.
And dont forget all the news about bad equipment lead to an increase in military spending. That increase could not have happend if everything was fine, so the military has an interest to look weak to increase the budget. In times of imigrants and low future rents ( minimum wage jobs of angenda2010 dont give enough money to save for retirement and self imposed constituional limits on deficit spending) there is no free money available and so the politicans can say ” you see we dont want to spend money on the military but there are in bad shape and trump and putin plabla so we have to do it but trust me we would rather not.
Dear German friend, Varg,
We don’t expect jackshit from Germany. They have been willing accomplices and vassals for so long.
Backing Kiev and the nazi putsch was the clincher. Not a German tear shed for the 10,000 women and children and farmers and miners slaughtered in Donbass.
So, expect our bile toward the satrap state, once a nation, now a prostitute.
You’re better than UK. And that’s really low, the bottom. Lost your culture. You have automobiles and not much else.
Dear Red:
I’m guessing you are not a politician?
In defense of Germany and the UK, they likely lost their best genes in 2 world wars.
Chances for this to happen are Slim or None.
Remember Krupp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp
Remember Dresden.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-unspoken-crimes-of-world-war-ii-the-dresden-massacre-of-1945/5440352
and they reshaped the German society once and forever.
They Can, and they Would send the Germans to fight against Russians, if necessary.
But Russian itself are partially under Jews control since December 1993, so chances for this to happen are Slim or None.
The rumors of the libtard demise in Germany have been greatly exaggerated. Merkel going down means next to nothing. Her party’s loses have been represented, mostly, by the “Green’s” gains. Meaning, an even purer form of libtard is gaining power in Germany.
Some lovely coverage of Merkel (Cosimir) being saluted by Ukrainian Nazis came out a few days ago.
German voters have no say in the upcoming war waged by the Catholic hegemony and her Luther sundered children upon the true Orthodox world.
WW3 is unavoidable. Too much inertia has built up.
Hopes of uncle sam being starved for funds have faded significantly….Bolsonaro will hand the US a Brazil in 5 partitions. Brazil will feed the USMIC.
http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/03-11-2018/141935-brazil_hangover-0/
@Anon who wrote: “WW3 is unavoidable. Too much inertia has built up.”
Don’t say that. I have just, for the first time, come across the “1812” chapter opening of “War and Peace” where Tolstoy writes that once the huge, inhuman, insane crime of war has been committed it becomes part of history — hence the inevitable result of countless causes, what you call the buildup of inertia — but until then it is subject to the free will of millions of individuals, hence not inevitable.
So scary and so sad. In reality, Germany is almost defenseless in a real theater of modern total war. Modern war belongs to only 3 types of weapons: satellites & space weapons, submarines & underwater drones (all with missiles), and missiles for attacking and for defending. As long as I know, of those Germany only has submarines (of which the crypto frau Merkel gave away Dolphin subs to Khazaria II).
The AZE (AngloZionist Empire) knows this perfectly. The aim has never been to defend anything: the real agenda is to turn Germanic and Slavic countries into targets which guarantees their total extermination, with the bonus of killing more Slavs in mother Russia.
All the NATO rhetoric is just a pretext to maintain the factual invasion and subjugation of Germany.
”The AZE (AngloZionist Empire) knows this perfectly. The aim has never been to defend anything: the real agenda is to turn Germanic and Slavic countries into targets which guarantees their total extermination, with the bonus of killing more Slavs in mother Russia.”
Exactly. The thing to keep in mind here is that today’s tools of political reaction, neoliberalism and neoconservatism, differ in one crucial aspect from classical fascism. Not only are they promoting oppression, violence, chaos, and lawlessness, but they are also unapologetically and utterly elitist. The striking absence of racism is paradoxically due to the fact that the ruling corporatocracy is anti-Life, pure and simple. Couldn’t possibly care less about what happens to any human being (apart, perhaps, from some gloating in whatever suffering there is). It took Hitler the routing of his ’invincible’ army of degenerates by the Red Army to reach such a stage of omnicidal nihilism. The neocons and neolibs don’t have any compassion to dispose of.
Russian top brass are determined to strike U.S. territory in case of war on the European continent.
EU is us territory – RU will aim nearby and reach across The Pond.
Don’t point only at RU; point at usa’s belligerence/saber-rattling.
I’m deeply sad listening to this report. Who would stop pesky Russia from invading Europe next time? 😂
”Remember how in 1990s, there was a trend in Russia to label ’Euro’ everything to stress the exceptional quality of merchandise. We had ’euro-house repairs’, ’euro-fighters’, ’euro-copters’ ”
In Nussiminen’s parlance, utter Euro-trash , haha. As for the NATO soldiery, the less said the better.
The Americans in Iceland drinking it dry …it ran out of beer…says something?
JJ,
Do not be surprised. Iceland has somewhere around 250,000 people. If you “invade” them with only 5,000 military men, who will drink say case of beer a day, it won’t take much time before you drink it dry. Especially, if they have a good beer, I do not know. Do not take it as a critique, pls. Just a thought, and yes I liked your comment.
Amusing scenario, sadly, not very likely at all in reality. Our psycho b*tch of a “defence” minister, who moistens at the thought of bombs being dropped, has been wanting to increase spending for years, Trump comes along and demands spending increases. Merkel now has no choice but to obey his command but the public is against it.
“Oh, would you look at that, our equipment is not combat ready… WE ARE OH SO DEFENCELESS AGAINST BIG BAD RUSSIAN BEAR!!! We need more money, more money is what we need, yes. At least 2% of GDP! Oh yes! No, it has nothing to do with Trump, would we lie to you?”
That’s a more likely scenario. There are more than enough willing, wannabe atlanticist hawks in the German government, they are cut from the same deranged cloth the US neocon psychos are, these idiots deluded themselves into believing Moscow is weak enough to attack head on without the consequences stretching beyond the baltics. They are insane, don’t count on their (disguised) dissent.
“Scots Guard who was unveiled by the British Army as its first female on the front line after changing sex is having an ‘affair’ with another soldier’s wife, it was claimed last night.
The Mail on Sunday understands Guardsman Chloe Allen, 26, is living with married teaching assistant Sophie Gray, who helped the soldier to apply her make-up soon after telling military chiefs that she wanted to live as a woman.
The rifleman, who has guarded the Queen and marched at Trooping the Colour, made headlines in 2016 when the Ministry of Defence proudly announced she would continue in a combat role as a female, having served as a man for four years.
In a series of TV interviews, Chloe, from Penrith, Cumbria, said she was honoured to become the first woman in Army history to be allowed to fight on the front line.
Guardsman Chloe Allen(pictured left), 26, is living with married teaching assistant Sophie Gray(pictured right), who helped the soldier to apply her make-up soon after telling military chiefs that she wanted to live as a woman
Guardsman Chloe Allen(pictured left), 26, is living with married teaching assistant Sophie Gray(pictured right), who helped the soldier to apply her make-up soon after telling military chiefs that she wanted to live as a woman
But now The Mail on Sunday has been told Sophie’s devastated husband intends to name Chloe in divorce papers citing his wife’s infidelity as the reason for the breakdown of their marriage.
The legal move will embarrass top brass, who in 2016 used Chloe’s decision to transition from male to female to showcase the Army’s commitment to diversity and equality.”
This is how the world ends — (X3)
With a Bang, and a Whimper!
(thx to T S Elliot)
The general idea that the Jewish Mafia wants an open war against Russia, as PCR and too many emotionally unhinged Russophiles are fantasizing about, is all but laughable.
The Mafia came centuries ago to the conclusion that most often TALKING and traumatic agent provocateur terror acts alone will do enough damage to break the opponents societal, cultural and spiritual cohesion. Large scale battles are only fought when all parties on Breshinsky’s grand chess board are fully controlled before the a scripted and hoaxed conflict even begins. Usually with a kabbalistic false flag event, one might add.
“newly acquired military hardware is faulty & unfit for service.”
I mean it depends on what the ‘service’ is going to be. No-one is threatening Germany. So why invest in hardware that won’t be needed?
The Hegemon is threatening Germany if they don’t spend more on armaments.
All the threats are internalized among the dutiful NATO vassalage. The Hegemon decides and they all obey.
An alliance that has yet to win a war, though they have bombed several nations to “defeat”.
What they dread is a head-to-head war.
What really can they put on the ground to deal with Russia? Not proxies. We know that game.
Their own national troops, head-to-head with Russians. 20,000? Throw in another 20,000 special forces.
That should last about 96 hours. Then the white flags fly.
They have forward-based all their armor and artillery about as close to the border as they can. That means they lose all that hardware in the first 24 hours.
What the Germans know for certain is what defeat looks like just before it happens. They are experts at losing big in wars. It’s like an aura feeling that epileptics sense–though this is defeat, destruction, utter devastation.
NATO will be pulverized if they start a war with Russia. And that’s if it is fought on their Western side of the border. God help them if they harm a Russian city or town. They will all lose their capitals, and most anything strategic infrastructure.
Russia has fought the Syrian war with 30 planes and 3000 troops. Think of the impact of what will hit Europe if they begin combat against Russia.
NATO has just mustered their biggest exercise in decades. 50,000 men. Russia held Vostok 2018 two months ago with 300,000 men. Just a slice of the strength they can throw in counter-attack at Europe.
And the weasely Americans? Again, if Russian soil is hit by whatever war the Hegemon starts, the US will suffer losses that make Pearl Harbor look like a squad level fire fight. Russia would have no other recourse.
Germany has lived as the battered frau. Should have escaped from the monster long ago.
Alte Deutschland died in the early ’30’s, ‘modern’ Germany died 35 years ago, the ‘fall’ of SSSR was just icing on the cake. Today, what was arguably the best trained and equipped army in all Europe has fallen on hard times, and this is not only because the ‘enemy’ they trained for years to fight disappeared, it is because of a societal collapse.
Merkle has ruled with an iron hand and has spent the last 15 and more years destroying the Germany she did not grow up in and the Germany she despises. It is her rule that has destroyed the German Army, German society and the last vestiges of German Kultur. Lord knows what Foggy Bottom has on her (ummm, maybe Stasi? Nahhh, not her…), and for that matter most, if not all, German and ‘eu’ politicians, but whatever it is, she and the rest of her bag men are working day and night to destroy Europe as per their orders.
The end result is a German Army that can not field a single armored division, let alone a corp or a combined arms unit. When the Soviet Union was no more, all of ‘west europe’ immediately went in to fire sale mode. The most modern weapons were sold off. Greece and Turkey both got Leo 2’s, Leo 1’s, and those gawd awful left over American M60’s. What was DDR found a lucrative market in Africa and ME, happily selling everything in the warehouse, well, almost everything, to Africa and ME, plus some charming folks in central Africa and Philippines and South America. What they had left, they, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland very quietly ‘gifted’ to orcland, hence the never ending ordinance supply to 404. UK, she died on Flanders Fields and ain’t been jack since. France is not much better, think Verdun.
In the meantime, one would think that without the somewhat large expenditures on military and maintaining an army, civilian society would benefit immensely. But…but….wait. With most, if not all, the major arms manufacturers curtailing hugely their production facilities, no one thought about the workers who actually produced this stuff. Read the financial reports, understand the percentage paid in taxes….and wages with taxes thereon.
What many of you scream about as the MIC has huge numbers of workers from the most highly skilled to those who barely qualify as ditch diggers. Look at your own ‘retirement’ and ‘pension’ funds and tell me whose stock is in there. Yup, just about all of you own a piece of MIC one way or another. So, you get your momentary satisfaction, your feel good moment, as another ‘mic’ factory or company closes down. And the laid off workers, those not skilled or connected enough to instantly fall in to another well paying job, go on public assistance…which YOU pay for in your ever increasing taxes while your roads and bridges crumble and ever increasing numbers of your populace use ever increasing amounts of illegal drugs requiring ever increasing numbers of police and emergency medical personnel.
And what is the MIC? You name it and just about every medium and large corporation in US and europe are part of it, let alone Japan and Korea.
Most American corporations had plants and facilities in Germany before, during and after the war. Ford, GM, Chrysler, Big Oil, GE, Edison, Goodyear et al, they ALL got their royalties from wartime production in Germany after the war. Benz, Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg (you know it as MAN today), Nebelungen Werk, Auto Union ( you can all it Opel all you want, it’s Auto Union), Porsche (original, and failed. Tiger E plus Elefant/Ferdinand made from their version of Tiger E), Henschel, VW, Siemens, Krupp (Yeah, they’re gone. Dream on.), everyone right down to Marklin, the model train and toy manufacturer, got paid after the war while all of Germany rebuilt.
So, here we are, 35 and some years after the evil Soviet Union collapsed, and what do you have? You have a europe and US that are drowning in debt as millions of illegal, operative being ILLEGAL, ’emigrants’ flood europe AND US and immediately begin sucking down government monies. You have confiscatory taxes that fund a huge and redundant bureaucracy festering in Brussels and Washington, you have untold numbers of citizens who are not patriots and governments who are more interested in pushing ‘social programs’ and ‘social awareness’ than they are in the majority of their own citizens.
And Germany still can’t field an armored division to defend against the rampant and threatening Russians. You folks need to change either your meds, your government or your pampers.
Auslander
Ironic and awesome post, Auslander.
Russia, the supposed threat to civilization, spends the least, has the best, and its very defenses are the chokebone in the European throat.
Without the Europeans in the front line trenches or suicide wheeled and tracked vehicles, the US is naked as a land power. It cannot attack anywhere without being ground to pieces and ash.
The missile defenses of Russia make the U.S. a naked air power.
And few Russian shorelines are impossible to approach with US naval power.
What is left is the False Flag and Propaganda machines and Cyber War of the U.S.
All the underpinning of the Western “armies” is now leveraged on debt that dwarfs GDP and derivatives that dwarfs all the debt. The ponzi scheme of the U.S. is terminating the corpus of the militaries and the viability of the West’s societies.
Trump has demanded more of the poison for all.
Germany is the first ‘was’ of Europe. Nord Stream 2 won’t save it. It will just warm it in its long winter, the decades ahead.
The demigods Larchmonter and Auslander having a conversation. What a treat! Best way to close a damn good day!
“destroying the Germany she did not grow up in”
Interesting point. Never thought of it that way.
Deep-seated resentment somewhere?
Mixed loyalties?
Not that I would condemn loyalties to the USSR/Russia.
But as a psychological diagnosis it might explain something.
In a certain sense Merkel still seems to me the most improbable of heads of state.
And the minister of defense seems to be far too chic to occupy this position.
Katherine
Katherine
“You folks need to change either your meds, your government or your pampers.”
Many good points, but also rampant with assumptions about the assumptions of readers, including how “folks” invest money or what is in “your” pension fund, and what “you” know about the structure of the American economy.
The progressive militarization of the American economy—you could say the infiltration and takeover of the “civilian” economy by direct and indirect MIC entities and activities—is is not news, nor is it surprising. It has been an item of intense scrutiny and analysis since at least the Reagan years. If one knew where to read it. I recall at least one article in The Nation in the eighties calling out this phenomenon, with chapter and verse, which in that context meant figures and percentages. Also, later, the hope that the collapse of the USSR could reverse this trend and, later, the despair that this was not occurring. Au contraire.
Intelligent folk are already toilet-trained. No need for Pampers!
But, not sure how this argument relates to the issue of Germany’s readiness to fight.
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Anonymous 03:15
Read it again, this part.
“Today, what was arguably the best trained and equipped army in all Europe has fallen on hard times, and this is not only because the ‘enemy’ they trained for years to fight disappeared, it is because of a societal collapse.
Merkle has ruled with an iron hand and has spent the last 15 and more years destroying the Germany she did not grow up in and the Germany she despises. It is her rule that has destroyed the German Army, German society and the last vestiges of German Kultur. Lord knows what Foggy Bottom has on her (ummm, maybe Stasi? Nahhh, not her…), and for that matter most, if not all, German and ‘eu’ politicians, but whatever it is, she and the rest of her bag men are working day and night to destroy Europe as per their orders.
The end result is a German Army that can not field a single armored division, let alone a corp or a combined arms unit. When the Soviet Union was no more, all of ‘west europe’ immediately went in to fire sale mode. The most modern weapons were sold off. Greece and Turkey both got Leo 2’s, Leo 1’s, and those gawd awful left over American M60’s. What was DDR found a lucrative market in Africa and ME, happily selling everything in the warehouse, well, almost everything, to Africa and ME, plus some charming folks in central Africa and Philippines and South America. What they had left, they, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland very quietly ‘gifted’ to orcland, hence the never ending ordinance supply to 404.”
Auslander
Author
Sevastopol, The Third Defense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4 Book 1, A Premonition, The Move South. Set against a backdrop of real events and real places, the reader is left to filter fact from fiction.
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
I still don’t see what the militarization of the American economy has to do with Germany’s unreadiness to fight.
The article is correct in regards to the effectiveness of the german army. However, behind the curtain it’s a bit more complicated. Manufacturers are only partly to blame. The most important reason for this mess is that the defense ministry is being run by kind of progressive (in american terms) female ideologist, for who kindergarten, equal rights, diversity etc and so on, and last not least catering to the jewish meme seem to have been the highest priority ever since she acted at the helm of the ministry. My impression is that she couldn’t care less about the state of the equipment or (Auschwitz beware) combat readiness.
In all honesty, as a german, I believe that in the last few years Putin has , without intent of course, done much more to keep harm away from my country than our government.
Eeeeehhhh could it be possible that the German military and other militaries lie about their readyness and the state of their equipment??
So the enemy have difficulty to access the situation??
Almost anything else in Germany are “Lugenpresse”, but we can count on German military messages cant we??
Very reasonable, and well written! In the end, why “Euro Countries” should risk a bloodbath? To comply with US Russophobic obsession? I still hope that one day it will be clear who is the real warmonger in this unstable World…
USA and Israel.
Katherine
Of course Germany does not want war against Russia, it relys on Russian Gas and will for decades now that it closed Nuclear power stations, and the facts that already Germany lost wars against Russia. For Anglo, war against Russia is distant and they feel safe. For Germany, war against Russia would be immediate destruction of the German nation. They are already in a bad position- uniquely in history, a very rich nation with no political or military soveriegnty, as they are controlled by USA at every level. We can imagine it like ancient Persia, but with China controlling Persia completely and controlling the Persian armies and who they could trade with, so even if Persia was rich and powerful it would still only be a puppet. Germany is told what to do and the centrist mafia that has ruled West Germany since 1945 will do exactly as told. And AfD just will make it suck up to Trumps anglo-fascism even more.
France at least has a different opportunity being self sufficient with Nuclear energy and a culture of disdain for all Anglo Saxon things. France does not have manic russophobia . For some reason, Pro Anglo politicians like Macron keep rising to the top however.
Germany lost so many people through the 1800s emigration, then mad Kaiser and the suicidal Nazi wars, now very low birthrates due to hedonistic society and immigration of Muslims refugess due to USA/Israeli wars. Until Germany gets a better leadership things will not improve.
100% agreed Viktor
Remember back in 2003 when France refused to fight in Iraq? In the American and British media, there was a lot of French-bashing:
~ Comedians made mean-spirited jokes about “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”.*
~ Some even made jabs about body odor.
~ From 2003 to 2007, the GOP instigated a boycott of French products.
~ The media sometimes smugly reported anything going wrong with France (e.g. riots, sometimes involving cars being burnt).**
~ Some people demanded that the Statue of Liberty be dismantled and shipped back to France.
There’s a whole blog documenting French-bashing in English-speaking media: miquelon.org
The whole France boycott (from 2003 to 2007) was not only an immature, butthurt reaction to a simple disagreement; it was also un-Christian. I doubt that Christ would tolerate this sort of racial animus against white people.
Oh, and if it weren’t for the so-called “Frogs”, you would be dying of food poisoning because there would be no Louis Pasteur to discover pasteurization. Let’s not forget Braille and hot-air balloons. And what about all these English words (e.g. “bureau”) borrowed from French?
*Millions of French soldiers lost their lives in both world wars. I believe this is a symptom of the broken public education system in the English-speaking world, though that’s another story.
So far I’ve seen the notion of “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” among English-speakers. I have yet to see the same being uttered in non-English-speaking, let alone Russian-language, media. Can anyone ’round here (including the Saker himself) chime in on that?
Then again, had France been more courageous, it would’ve boldly told the uncultured English-speaking world to screw off and join forces with Russia. What’s the point of being a servant to a master who considers you an Untermensch when you can be allies with a country that shares a lot of cultural similarities?
Germanys military status quo is the best excuse for not being able to fullfill the orders of the empire.
Participation in excercises – yes sir – assisting in minor operations – yes sir – assisting in a fully fledged war – sorry sir, no capabilities.
I´m not sure whether this is not just a safety measure to stay out without having to disobey the master openly.
Neoliberalism has taken over Germany for sure, no question – but the European elites do not want this kind of bloodshed as they are fully aware of that the theatre of war would again be Central Europe and that any war against Russia might be the end of the blue planet.
Maybe it is major military malingering.
Very sensible, if that is the case.
The dog ate our tanks!
Katherine
Germany doesn’t need full military capability because behind the scenes and led by the UK and France big moves are underway to merge all the EU militaries into one along with NATO.
Countries will have no control over where and how their militaries are deployed and war can be declared without even a vote in the “sovereign” parliaments.
The globalists are creating a super EU/NATO force. I suggest Ruslan might want to look at that. It is very sobering.
Listen to just how secretive, ominous and far advanced these plans are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taQ2HNfvc0U
@Varg
they got attacked in the press for [their slightly pro-Russian talk] and thus stopped saying that.
Why don’t the Germans simply boycott the Jewish media?
I just realized why the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement scares the Jews, scares them so much they are actually trying to pass laws to make the boycotts illegal. It’s not that Israel is doing much business with the West. In any case a loss of business can be made up by simply forcing Uncle Sam to give them more money each year.
No, the Jews are frightened because it is easy to boycott the media they dominate: simply do not watch or listen. CNN and MSNBC have been losing about 20% of their audience each year, and it won’t be long before these channels die. Perhaps something similar could be made to happen in Germany.
A collapse of the lying liars might not be the Jews’ worst nightmare, but it has to rank high on their list of fears.
So why not make it happen?
CNN and MSNBC have been losing about 20% of their audience each year, and it won’t be long before these channels die.
I know it’s bad form to reply to one’s own comment, but I want to add the following….
The recent firing of Megyn Kelly is more evidence that the lying liars are feeling the pressure. Kelly was working for mighty NBC, but the size of the media company did not save her.
The Saker likes to say that the current Cold War is mostly informational. If we can tame the lying liars, that will do much to make a hot World War 3 less likely. Let the media boycotts intensify!
I don’t watch the MSM so I don’t know why Megan Kelly was fired, or what that means.
I have read that CNN is profitable—it is owned by At&T.
Katherine
OK, here’s another attempt to get a comment through the Saker’s heavy-handed moderators.
CNN is profitable
Well, if CNN continues to lose 20% of its audience each year, it won’t stay profitable much longer.
I understand that CNN has actually lost 41% of its viewership over the past year. This is probably a combination of the “normal” 20% yearly loss, and another 21% from Trump’s loud labelling of the channel as a source of fake news (probably a reaction to CNN’s very noticeable and not particularly honest anti-Trump bias during the 2016 elections).
This time, there would be NO Germany left.
As one Russian general put it:” in case you repeat aggression against Russia again, we will turn Germany i to 5-6 big lakes”.
hello community, I personally like the fact they aren’t capable of doing anything to be aggressive. The only thing i mourn is the taxes being wasted so much. But since the german government is fully reigned by the corporate money what would you expect to happen else instead? True innovation is not happening since the excess cross exports are the predominant savior of German economy, so to my best guess at least the last decade approx.
I also strongly doubt that the intentions behind the ” troop” are to be ready. No, I think since everyone is staring at ratios and unemployment rates, it’s just set to be a employer to those who unfortunately haven’t had the chance to get good schooling and apprenticeship. The current system works that way, everyone wants at least to earn decent so they obviously want governmental jobs since other work is below what would meet the demands of making a living. Under the current circumstances those gifted with talent but not prosperous can not adequately apply what they have been studying, learning or practicing. Instead they are struggling with accessment and out of the blue decisions whose gonna be in what position. The prosperous ones heading to super universities run by American education cooperates lol, what might you expect else.
No, I think germany is just a thread to itself with it’s unproductive and non stringent policies, double standards and deep ties to those wanting to preserve what they already blackmailed into the legislative governing body.
But one thing to everyone saying we would not care for Russia don’t be too prejudiced there is still a critical mass that does and will!
So do not bash all of us! best regards
зрик,
The taxes are subject to be drained by “an invasion of …” who, as Tom Luongo writes today, cost say Italy something like $1200US/month/each. Do the math. How many in Germany?
Anonus, I assume it to be equal in amount in €. But it’s just a guess. I am afraid that even officials can’t tell or do not want to. But for the wake eye it’s noticeable. You will see the degradation on roads, public schools especially in the neglected areas. So it’s pretty imbalanced in terms of tax and tax utilization in public structures. Same in Spain, Italy…..