In light of Trump’s statements on EU countries needing to pay for NATO in order to get US protection a leading member of the SPD has declared an EU bomb being necessary as part of an EU army (and apparently somehow cheaper than just meeting Trump’s demand that they meet their treaty GDP contribution targets).
And as usual it’s because Russia, Russia, Russia. It’s coming to get them, it’s going to take over Europe Hitler style because it’s forever 1939 in the minds of today’s western leaders and that’s the only way to ever view things.
80 years on and the SPD are still despicable fascists.
So nuclear energy is too dangerous but nukes are good and necessary? I can’t believe the German government
lemmygrad needs own nukes
a nuke for everyone, that’s gommunism bby
Mmmyes let’s put more nukes in Europe, that will sure make everyone safer.
Remember when in 2022 Russian nuclear forces were placed in condition of raised alert and everyone banged their drum how it meant putin was threatening the world with nukes?
Guess this time it’s different
Germany is creepy as fuck right now. Its completely sliding into Military Keynesianism
The decoupling from Russian energy, the “derisking” from Chinese markets and the move towards e-mobility will crush German car companies (who are not competitive in that sector) are smashing the rate of profit (That’s a thorough sweep through most of the economic base in Germany).
It does already lead to cuts on social spending which in turn makes ppl turn away from centrist libs.
Who are they turning to? Well the left is nonexistent in Germany, so they are looking the same way that capital which is on the losing side of things is looking: the far right AfD.
Meanwhile the transatlantic center is desperately trying to look for growth potential and finds the arms industry, which is in line with their Zionism, Islamophobia, Russophobia and Sinophobia anyways.
So we now have discussions in Germany that we have to be ready for war with Russia in no later than in 5 years and are proudly opening up new arms factories.
The more the AfD rises in polls the more the center will lean into war with Russia to mitigate an economic situation that benefits the AfD as well as create a narrative that is supposed to keep the “Russia friendly” AfD out of power.
Meanwhile more and more authoritarian laws are enacted to protect the centrist parties from losing power while at the same time Ukranian-“solidarity” lets fascist elements seep in the centrist parties, predominantly the green party and its foundations (Heinrich Böll, LibMod, …)
I am not certain of all the mechanisms but I don’t see any meaningful material development that would halt this. Renewables don’t provide profit rates
aside from organising I am considering leaving the country within the next years, although I would hope that we’ll somehow be able to prevent recreating the 30s of last century as well as the 40s where Russia has to solve our fascism problem again!
Looks like Luxemburg’s Socialism or Barbarism again and I am not here for the Barbarism
Germany is backsliding hard and I’m a little concerned. If they get nukes, they’re going to use them to bully everyone into doing what they wish. No matter how unpopular.
You know, I had assumed that the EU already had nukes.
Thankfully not. France does and the UK too (though no longer EU obviously). Besides them Russia is the only other European (well sorta) country with nuclear weapons. Though NATO nuclear weapons (American) are stationed on a sharing basis under US/NATO control in several other EU countries they can’t be used except on US authorization.
