REPORT: German Bundeswehr now almost totally disarmed, with munitions stores sufficient to support only one or two days of fighting in the event of a serious conflict
REPORT: German Bundeswehr now almost totally disarmed, with munitions stores sufficient to support only one or two days of fighting in the event of a serious conflict
Years of chronic under-funding and heedless aid shipments to Ukraine have left Europe's dominant industrial power essentially undefended, and hardly anybody in government seems to care.
For months, since the European enthusiasm for the Ukranian war skyrocketed, I have been observing Europeans in the U.K., Germany, Italy....we are old, overweight, addicted to phones and we claim that we are ready to go to war? Never seen such a bunch of people so detached from reality....and don’t forget that for 3 years we were scared of a respiratory virus with an IFR of 0.0009%...so ridiculous
Apr 22, 2023·edited Apr 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius
Weird. They told us those new socialist-green solar powered mortars and wind powered missiles they would replace old stockpiles with were really going to scare the pants off NAZO's enemies.
Sadly, you could be describing the whole of Europe. The UK isn't in any better shape. Years of post-war prosperity, assumptions/guarantees of US protection, declining educational standards, cheap poor quality food, over-medication for the slightest sneeze, a total unawareness of affairs in the rest of the world, complete ignorance over how the world really works and how we all got to be so rich. I could go on! Definitely, NATO should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union disappeared but there were too many vested interests. We are all going to hell in a handcart (obviously due to the fact we are all Green these days and can't been seen using combustion engines) and nobody seems to care/realise/notice.
I hear similar things here in the USA. What’s astonishing is we “enlightened” “western” citizens do nothing thanks to much of the chilling that has occurred. I wonder if people would even be brave enough to understand their duty and obligation and use their 2nd Amendment rights if it came to that. I really am beginning to wonder if they would rather pile onto a train going to an unknown place.
It is not just the German military .Living on the Dutch German border I have seen the decay of Germany society slowly unfold for 50 years. So this has started well before Die Wiedervereinigung.
The contrast between Germany and the Netherlands always baffles me. In many aspects Germany and the other big European economies like France and Italy are at least a decade behind the curve, something that hits home every time I travel around Europe.
Considering that those nations pretty run Europe, I fear that any meaningful reforms cross-Europe are a lost cause. Europe's ruling caste doesn't want a change to a status quo that is working out just fine for them, to the detriment of the majority of Europeans.
The Bundeswehr has been not properly funded or had properly trained soldiers for as long as I can remember (so I guess exactly as you pointed out- the fall of the wall). But why is the German media purposefully ignoring the elephant in the room- a lot of blame lays at the feet of Merkel and her partnership with Obama. The 2 of them wrecked havoc on NATO and the EU, with these fruit loop kind of utopian ideas of one globalist army/order. It really seems like the trend with the leaders is to erase national identities and create one big homogenous love fest- which is quite obviously, wholly ridiculous. I actually think Germany has is slightly worse than the US right now, we have unmitigated illegals swarming the southern border (already in excess of 6 million in the last 3 years with Biden), but the large majority are Spanish speaking and catholic. Germany has to try and integrate middle easterners who are largely illiterate, read from right to left with an entirely different alphabet, and are predominantly Muslim requiring all sorts of cultural adjustments, including but not limited to the role of women in modern society. I don’t know how it can be best done, but Merkel and Obama acolytes need to be openly mocked and jeered into oblivion.
I guess thats why they didnt say a peep about the act of war perpetrated on them by the US. What are they gonna do with no ammo? Give Biden a stern talking to?
I realize it is no consolation to you or any other European but we in the USA are racing right to the bottom with you. It just feels, just like you write, that all of this is idiocy is being enacted with no real thought or plan for the future. Unfortunately, this gives many the idea that there is some big conspiracy. I think it is just a lot of really stupid, ignorant people who tricked enough people nto voting for them. Of course you have to add in the life long bureaucratic appointees. Good luck and keep writing.
Germany spends $ 56 bn per year on defense, which makes it #7 in the world.
we spend almost as much as Russia, who are able to fight a WW1-style industrial war with it, and come up with the most modern weapons in the world.
What would more money for the Bundeswehr get us? More committees deciding on the correctly gendered names for our panzers. (What is the female for Leopard?)
And who should attack us, and for what reason. To take over our windmills and pride parades?
We are destroyed from the inside. I am glad that at least our elites don't have an army to make any mischief. They would use it only against their own citizens anyway.
Billions of dollars worth of equipment abandoned in Afghanistan.
Depletion of the strategic petroleum reserves
But the US military has loads of maternity flight suits and cross-sex hormones for the "transgender" soldiers & sailors who enlist for the free castration "benefit."
For months, since the European enthusiasm for the Ukranian war skyrocketed, I have been observing Europeans in the U.K., Germany, Italy....we are old, overweight, addicted to phones and we claim that we are ready to go to war? Never seen such a bunch of people so detached from reality....and don’t forget that for 3 years we were scared of a respiratory virus with an IFR of 0.0009%...so ridiculous
Weird. They told us those new socialist-green solar powered mortars and wind powered missiles they would replace old stockpiles with were really going to scare the pants off NAZO's enemies.
Sadly, you could be describing the whole of Europe. The UK isn't in any better shape. Years of post-war prosperity, assumptions/guarantees of US protection, declining educational standards, cheap poor quality food, over-medication for the slightest sneeze, a total unawareness of affairs in the rest of the world, complete ignorance over how the world really works and how we all got to be so rich. I could go on! Definitely, NATO should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union disappeared but there were too many vested interests. We are all going to hell in a handcart (obviously due to the fact we are all Green these days and can't been seen using combustion engines) and nobody seems to care/realise/notice.
German self-destruction is only slightly ahead of America's. We're on similar paths to the same result.
It is a shame Biden didn't send all the equipment he left in Afghanistan to Germany. Even CNN admits it. I guess he would rather arm the Taliban.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/afghan-weapons-left-behind/index.html
So basically, the members of a local gun range in Tennessee could take Berlin in 2 days.
I hear similar things here in the USA. What’s astonishing is we “enlightened” “western” citizens do nothing thanks to much of the chilling that has occurred. I wonder if people would even be brave enough to understand their duty and obligation and use their 2nd Amendment rights if it came to that. I really am beginning to wonder if they would rather pile onto a train going to an unknown place.
History indicates that awakening from the late-stage republic stupor only happens after catastrophe.
It is not just the German military .Living on the Dutch German border I have seen the decay of Germany society slowly unfold for 50 years. So this has started well before Die Wiedervereinigung.
The contrast between Germany and the Netherlands always baffles me. In many aspects Germany and the other big European economies like France and Italy are at least a decade behind the curve, something that hits home every time I travel around Europe.
Considering that those nations pretty run Europe, I fear that any meaningful reforms cross-Europe are a lost cause. Europe's ruling caste doesn't want a change to a status quo that is working out just fine for them, to the detriment of the majority of Europeans.
There appears to be no shortage of crises, and no prospect of awakening in time to avert real disaster. All by some glorious design or accident.
The Bundeswehr has been not properly funded or had properly trained soldiers for as long as I can remember (so I guess exactly as you pointed out- the fall of the wall). But why is the German media purposefully ignoring the elephant in the room- a lot of blame lays at the feet of Merkel and her partnership with Obama. The 2 of them wrecked havoc on NATO and the EU, with these fruit loop kind of utopian ideas of one globalist army/order. It really seems like the trend with the leaders is to erase national identities and create one big homogenous love fest- which is quite obviously, wholly ridiculous. I actually think Germany has is slightly worse than the US right now, we have unmitigated illegals swarming the southern border (already in excess of 6 million in the last 3 years with Biden), but the large majority are Spanish speaking and catholic. Germany has to try and integrate middle easterners who are largely illiterate, read from right to left with an entirely different alphabet, and are predominantly Muslim requiring all sorts of cultural adjustments, including but not limited to the role of women in modern society. I don’t know how it can be best done, but Merkel and Obama acolytes need to be openly mocked and jeered into oblivion.
I guess thats why they didnt say a peep about the act of war perpetrated on them by the US. What are they gonna do with no ammo? Give Biden a stern talking to?
So sorry, but we're past the tipping point. Your country is doomed, so is mine(US). I'm making a new life in Central America.
I realize it is no consolation to you or any other European but we in the USA are racing right to the bottom with you. It just feels, just like you write, that all of this is idiocy is being enacted with no real thought or plan for the future. Unfortunately, this gives many the idea that there is some big conspiracy. I think it is just a lot of really stupid, ignorant people who tricked enough people nto voting for them. Of course you have to add in the life long bureaucratic appointees. Good luck and keep writing.
"Years of chronic under-funding"?
Germany spends $ 56 bn per year on defense, which makes it #7 in the world.
we spend almost as much as Russia, who are able to fight a WW1-style industrial war with it, and come up with the most modern weapons in the world.
What would more money for the Bundeswehr get us? More committees deciding on the correctly gendered names for our panzers. (What is the female for Leopard?)
And who should attack us, and for what reason. To take over our windmills and pride parades?
We are destroyed from the inside. I am glad that at least our elites don't have an army to make any mischief. They would use it only against their own citizens anyway.
And look at the US!
Billions of dollars worth of equipment abandoned in Afghanistan.
Depletion of the strategic petroleum reserves
But the US military has loads of maternity flight suits and cross-sex hormones for the "transgender" soldiers & sailors who enlist for the free castration "benefit."