Thoughts?

I'm completely terrified of how bloodthirsty the press in my country has become in recent days. they're constantly yelling about how the SPD (yes, the pro-NATO Rosa killer party that has just approved the 100 billion extra military spending) is too Putin friendly, i've never before seen such blatant, open propaganda here and that's really saying something, given that we're just past an unprecedented onslaught of chynabad articles due to the olympics (aka the nuclear take games). they're basically braying for blood and any nuance or understanding of the conflict is seen as treason. this already was a huge problem before, but they've taken the rabid :frothingfash: jingoism to a whole new level. i can't read any news site anymore, it's just wading through endless hawkish bs and when i've scrolled past the warmongering there's probably some TERF being platformed yelling about how i shouldn't exist. i'm so fucking tired of all of this.

As far as the 100 billion go, they may as well burn the money, all of it will be spent on dysfunctional crap that's as bad or worse as an F-35 already rusted when it takes flight for the first time. Our MIC is at least as inefficient and wasteful as America's, it's pure corruption and giving handouts to a handful of well connected arms manufacturers and advisor firms. it's just painful to see how much money they're wasting on this, this is almost twice of Germany's annual arms budget and Scholz has already promised to at least meet, if not exceed, NATO's 2% goal. This will be a veritable bonanza for Heckler + Koch, Krauss Maffai Wegmann, Airbus and other war profiteers, while our infrastructure continues to rot, our schools fall apart, and we have the second-worst wifi coverage in all of Europe. but yeah, sure, we have money to arm azov giga nazis so they can fight wagner ultra nazis.

How does this relate to US military hegemony? Will Germany just act as America’s lapdog like Britain

Germany almost always does. Bandwagoning the USA is all our political class is capable of when it comes to foreign policy. There's been rare exceptions like Iraq, but the last days have convinced me that the CIA will never allow something like that to happen again. and even if that wasn't the case, our ruling class just has no idea what to do without D.C. calling the shots. like, zero. they're completely lost if they have to think for themselves when it comes to such things.