They are wearing stahlhelms again and doing torchlit parades in front of the leader. Do they not know this is a very bad aesthetic for them, does the Red Army need to roll into Berlin again since they obviously didn't learn their lesson from last time.
They don’t? Then who the fuck is marching in this?
I was going to say I was surprised Germany was able to keep their military while Japan didn’t, but Germany is also European / majority white soooo
Nevermind, apparently they too are allowed to play with toys.
edit: so Japan has a self defense force, not technically an army. But they have 52 billion in military expenditure on the books ….and so does Germany making these two the eight and ninth most funded miliaries in the world rsspectively.
Imperial forces gonna imperial
Lmfao of fucking course both of them liberaled their ways back into imperialism
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Germany was only allowed to keep their military after a brief hiatus because of East Germany.
The US planned on military intervention in East Germany and wanted to use the FRG as a staging ground for a third war.
The DDR demilitarized after the war and even banned military toys (like for kids) until they were forced to remilitarize in response to FRG agression.
Both militaries maintained some of the old traditions, this was one of them.