'39 you say?
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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Oh fuck, is a reboot...
But this time the sides are reversed! What a twist!
Nothing is reversed.
Austria, you have been warned.
They have such a struggle
You could even call it my struggle
You’d need to write it in German though, to capture the essence. I’m a bit rusty, but I think that’s “Mein…” something. It’ll come back to me I’m sure.
along with the rise and rise of AfD, what could go wrong!
Bro you are everywhere
also Berlin is seriously applying for the 2036 Olympics…
They also said they’d fix the holes on Bahnstraße 7years ago and that stretch of road still destroys your rims. I have my doubts that the nation in love with fax machines and putting every piece of meat on the same oval bun is set to do anything extraordinary by 2039. More headlines, less reality seems to be to national standard.
One german is alright Two germans and they start singing Three germans and they start marching
The personnel growth plan foresees expanding from 185,420 active-duty soldiers today to 260,000 by the mid-2030s
Ah, so that’s where my tax euros are going.
They just need some breathing room
It's a hoot because even now they are trying to get just a few more people to join the Bundeswehr, and are already failing really hard at it.
Merz really preparing everything neatly for the AFD to take over.
Uh oh, the Germans are mobilizing
Hopefully this time, it will be nice Germans
Need people to stop defending mass militarization and also stop defending European governments as if they aren't also massively repressive where they having more power to enforce their racism, imperialism and so on isn't a good thing.
Sounds like something an Imperialist would say. "Yes, lay down your arms, defences are unnecessary"
No I just don't think a state that currently persecutes a whole bunch of its citizens with a rising fascist party, that is an accessory to an ongoing genocide, that supports mass austerity in say Greece, that supports trump's war on Iran I don 't think that state heavily militarizing is a good thing. Maybe I'm crazy for saying this.
Does your keyboard look like this?
Idk...just because you reject militarism, that does not mean that you should not understand and cover your defense needs so you're not a useless sitting duck. Of course that full defense has to include healthcare, social programs, education, etc, so that you don't have the misery that other countries (and fascists) can weaponize against you.
No I just don’t think a state that currently persecutes a whole bunch of its citizens with a rising fascist party, that is an accessory to an ongoing genocide, that supports mass austerity in say Greece, that supports trump’s war on Iran I don 't think that state heavily militarizing is a good thing. Maybe I’m crazy for saying this.
Wtf are you talking about Jesse
At the current rate the Russian army is going, they might advance to central Ukraine by 2039. So I understand the precautions being taken.
Oh boy, look at the time!
Good news, wrong community?
Some people like to joke that Germany growing their military strength should be a worrying sign for other European countries.
It's not accurate to reality though. Germany today is nothing like Germany in 1914 and 1939.
Not like the AfD is about to become the most popular party, it's really very unlike ~1933 for sure, for sure. (/s)
Yep not like they are constantly brutalizing immigrants and anyone protesting for anything. /s
Remember, '26 Weimar Republic Germany was super liberal and fun...until...'29 crash...and finally fascism '33.
European govs need to resist the coming economic crisis/recession/depression in a way (socialism) that prevents fascists from blaming that on or giving up democracy and liberalism.
Not long ago their Bundeskanzler openly said that Germany unaveringly supports a state activelly commiting a Genocide along ethnic lines because of the dominant ethnicity of that country.
There's also plenty of videos of the abuse of force of the German police towards anti-Genocide demonstrators.
Both in terms of Racism and Authoritarianism the German views (certainly those of their political mainstream) and even practices aren't anywhere as far from their "good old days" as the rest of Europe.
More money for guns means less money for the peoples actual needs
But big scary Russia might invade
Russia has been struggling to invade the poorest country in europe for more then 5 years now, what makes you think they can invade the richest country in europe?
The US has also threatened to invade nato territory