German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, is trying his hardest to "renew" and "Future-Proof" the German Bundeswehr, because he thinks that there's a war looming on Europe's horizon.
Military conscription and a standard year within the Bundeswehr for every German young adult is on the table as well.
There a interesting times ahead, people.
I don't like the sound of that.
Well, one has to ask themselves why countries as Russia, China and North-Korea keep on expanding and improving their armies... Certainly not because they're under threat of invasion, unlike South-Korea and Taiwan... 😶🌫️
If you expand your army and use it to invade, you can steal shit from other countries. Which means the rest of the world that doesn't want to get invaded has to fund their defense, their militarizes.
It's no different from how if you get rid of the police, criminals flourish and start stealing, raping, and murdering.
Relying on diplomacy is idiotic.
Diplomacy is important, wars begin and end with policy, but you’re right– deterrence and "threat detection" (illegal spying) is the key strategy here. When you’re not the strongest, you’re weaker than someone else.
Putting down domestic strife is what comes to mind with those particular countries. Also, I think we just saw why Russia built up their military.
Arms races can make game theoretic sense, but they aren't the prosperity maximizing solution, so it sucks to see things going this direction.
In my opinion they build their armies to be able to launch attacks, such as Russia on Ukraine... I know, no rocket science, but that's what they intend to do.
I think North Korea is a different situation, but China certainly might have some expansion in mind.
When the Germans say war, they mean it!
War with who?
Russia.
.....China vs Usa because of Taiwan, is the next one...