• raod_guitar@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    German media can’t wait to show german tanks stuck at the ostfront again these days.

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    10 hours ago

    Germany is Europes biggest country by population and GDP (not counting Russia and Turkey for population). It makes perfect sense for them to be the biggest spenders on defence as well.

    Ironically the ultra right wing AfD party is actually against the rearmament, but that is mostly because they are Putin’s puppets. (They claim fiscal responsibility concerns but this is a laughably transparent excuse)

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          3 hours ago

          A collection of the smaller ethnic states which The Russian Empire conquered and genocided.

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            1 minute ago

            Even if they did separate, there would still be a Russia, and it would not lose as much as one might think.

            And even so, it is a bad idea. There are so many disputes between the nations, that we would likely see a few wars. Something like what is happening between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Also, many of them are too small to exist in a meaningful was as independent countries, and I honestly don’t see the harm in them remaining in Russia.

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        5 hours ago

        Origninal comment is deleted, so i can’t see what you’re responding to, but I would like to point out that we have had an ongoing war in Europe for the last three years…

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          Why did we let them be a country again?

          Their comment.

          but I would like to point out that we have had an ongoing war in Europe for the last three years…

          I was picturing something along the lines of WWII’s European theater, but fair enough.