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Smart, since Trump is Putin's No. 1 fan, America can't be relied upon anymore to do the right thing
It's a disgrace really. He is going to end up pulling a "deal" with his "business Sav" and end up with appeasement for a directly authoritarian regime.
It's why Republicans aren't concerned about tariffs on Canadian oil-- they'll just ship it in from Russia instead
That makes me want to vomit
Every thing in politics has made me want to vomit for as long as I can remember. I'm an Albertan who votes NDP.
Birds of feather...
I dunno, I think the issue is that Trump wants to do the right thing.
Get it? Eh? I'll see my way out...
Germany: we need to invest in our Army to resist a war
also Germany: let's spend 835 million Euros in new parade uniforms
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-ausgehuniform-ausgaben-100.html
History is a closed loop
That is fantastic.
Then you should check out some other stuff centurii made
TBF, the introduction of the new uniforms was already decided in 2018 by the prior government under the MoD Ursula von der Leyen, and the new uniforms will be implemented step by step until 2032.
Er erläuterte, dass die Modernisierung der Dienstbekleidung 2018 entschieden, dann aber zurückgestellt worden sei, um vorher wichtige Kampfbekleidung und -ausrüstung zu erneuern und zu modernisieren. Dies sei in den letzten Jahren geschehen, so dass nun auch das Vorhaben bei der Dienstbekleidung weiter umgesetzt werde.
Zudem erstrecke sich die Finanzierung des Gesamtvorhabens bis 2032.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bundeswehr-ausgehuniformen-100.html
Yeah, it's just striking how everything has so much inertia. Ukraine has been holding the fort for 3 years now, and we're looking at those immense budgets for useless stuff.
Same with the bunkers, let's make an app to see where you can take refuge in one of the bunkers ... let's see... that can hold short of 500 thousand people country wide. That's fine, 1 citizen in 160.
New uniforms aren't useless. If the Bundeswehr wants to be an attractive employer they need modern uniform. I read online that people who served find the current ones very outdated. We just need to invest more in the military in total
it's not like the money just disappears, it goes into the economy, right?
yup, into the pocket of the companies with the best lobbyists
Yeah, but isn't part of that always black budget for secret shit?
Today to 2032 is eight years. 180k people in uniform, currently. The Ausgehuniform is the service dress uniform, not the parade uniform (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_dress_uniform ), so more an everyday uniform outside of combat and.. Ah, hell, someone else put it maybe better: https://augengeradeaus.net/2024/11/neue-dienstanzuege-erlaeuterung-vom-verteidigungsministerium/
Stop reading Bildzeitung.
Important context: Sweden and especially Finland have long had a defense model based around literally everyone contributing to defending against an occupation. The real change is they don't consider that enough of a deterrent anymore, hence joining NATO, after seeing Russia bloody itself against Ukraine for several years.
The netherlands have decided to ignore the problem of civil defence till it goes away. But at least we're investing in the military again, and we won the allied-military geographic lottery, so I do see the logic.
Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack.
Why would you develop an app for bunkers that do not exist? Peak German
Because it's not about bunkers in the traditional sense, but shelters. Subway stations, parking garages, etc. can be used as shelters, but are not bunkers.
Nobody prepares for a thermonuclear war, but having bombs rain on our cities is unfortunately not impossible.
Had the same thoughts on this. Other countries in Europe take this responsibility a bit more serious, for instance Finland.
Also why an App? I'm sure checking my phone is very far down in my priorities list in such a case. I prefer Swedens approach, better to have info material printed out and ready with a bunch of other important documents.
Because the German federal administration thinks they can simultaneously address the issue of missing digitalization with an app
Too true. In case of war, this is pretty much counter-intuitive.
Next they implement a paid version, where the more privileged people will get notified of the even better shelters.
If there's one thing I want in my life it's fewer Apps.
I'm more worried about the app being hacked and sending people en masse to the next target of bombs.
I hate it when video games turn real.
Although... Generation Zero is a pretty fun game...
really looking forward to a worldmap without russia.
North Mongolia
Bet the orange is sitting back in his diaper wringing his hands in avaricial glee
War. So hot right now.