even ignoring this, if NATO wants it, the bundeswehr will fully rearm with no restrictions. the JSDF is currently in this process, because having japan and germany as rabid attack dogs is more useful than having them disarmed.
H+K has already been mentioned, but besides massive amounts of small arms, Germany is already huge in manufacturing and exporting tanks (the Leopard II is widely used in Saudi-Arabia and the UAE, for example), main guns for tanks (i think the US army uses a Rheinmetal canon on their Abrams tanks) and submarines. The military-industrial complex is very definitely a thing here, germany is consistently among the 5 biggest arms exporters in the world. there's always a multitude of wars being waged in the world that directly line the pockets of our bourgeoisie.
no, that's japan. germany could have gone in that direction as well, but was already needed as a frontline state in the cold war when our constitution was written, so the us actively worked against this place becoming too pacifist.
just for context, losing two world wars in a row and then being told to fight your own relatives in the DDR in the early stages of an omnicidal thermonuclear war really did a number on people here. Germany in 1945 knew defeat to an extend that americans, who haven't known war within the boarders of their own country since the south got its ass kicked and who still cry ab losing a few of their boats in pearl harbor, cannot even begin to imagine. and in spite of this place still being deeply infected by fascism, the defeat at the hands of the USSR and its allies was so crushing, the sight of the bombed-out cities and the endless trails of PoWs returning home so overwhelming, that even the chuddiest people here became deeply vary of war. Consequently, germany had a massive peace movement from the 1960s onwards, and unlike america's it stayed relevant in german society throughout the 1970s and 1980s, where there were massive protests against us nukes being stationed here. this wasn't an exclusively leftist thing, either, even devout christian conservatives frequently had at least some anti-war sentiment.
today, none of that is left. our news sites celebrate the end of that era while they cheer on the azov nazis and it's absolutely terrifying to behold.
The state has sold itself to private companies, it is nothing but a shell left over to facilitate neo-liberlism. It has no capacity to actually organize anything.
That's not a thing. Foreign deployment isn't really mentioned at all in the GG AFAIK. The constitutional court sanctioned it in the 90's tho, if the mission is part of a "system of preserving peace and collective safety". Supposedly NATO, the EU, the VN are that.
I thought their constitution prevented the army from leaving the nation's borders, which would make them pretty useless to NATO.
It's not useless: Germany will be buying a shit ton of weapons and military vehicles and bombs from the US. That's the point of the US military too.
even ignoring this, if NATO wants it, the bundeswehr will fully rearm with no restrictions. the JSDF is currently in this process, because having japan and germany as rabid attack dogs is more useful than having them disarmed.
Japan has been working up to it for a very long time and I'm surprised that it's even taken this long for them to go all out
there's enough of an anti-war sentiment here to stop the LDP from going full balls to the wall like Germany has suddenly decided it wants to do
Would be kinda funny if this means Germany spins up its own defence industry and starts eating Raytheon's pie.
Heckler & Koch already exist, there is a thriving arms manufacturing industry in germany.
H+K has already been mentioned, but besides massive amounts of small arms, Germany is already huge in manufacturing and exporting tanks (the Leopard II is widely used in Saudi-Arabia and the UAE, for example), main guns for tanks (i think the US army uses a Rheinmetal canon on their Abrams tanks) and submarines. The military-industrial complex is very definitely a thing here, germany is consistently among the 5 biggest arms exporters in the world. there's always a multitude of wars being waged in the world that directly line the pockets of our bourgeoisie.
no, that's japan. germany could have gone in that direction as well, but was already needed as a frontline state in the cold war when our constitution was written, so the us actively worked against this place becoming too pacifist.
just for context, losing two world wars in a row and then being told to fight your own relatives in the DDR in the early stages of an omnicidal thermonuclear war really did a number on people here. Germany in 1945 knew defeat to an extend that americans, who haven't known war within the boarders of their own country since the south got its ass kicked and who still cry ab losing a few of their boats in pearl harbor, cannot even begin to imagine. and in spite of this place still being deeply infected by fascism, the defeat at the hands of the USSR and its allies was so crushing, the sight of the bombed-out cities and the endless trails of PoWs returning home so overwhelming, that even the chuddiest people here became deeply vary of war. Consequently, germany had a massive peace movement from the 1960s onwards, and unlike america's it stayed relevant in german society throughout the 1970s and 1980s, where there were massive protests against us nukes being stationed here. this wasn't an exclusively leftist thing, either, even devout christian conservatives frequently had at least some anti-war sentiment.
today, none of that is left. our news sites celebrate the end of that era while they cheer on the azov nazis and it's absolutely terrifying to behold.
Any hope left for Germany? Or are they necessarily doomed like the US?
The state has sold itself to private companies, it is nothing but a shell left over to facilitate neo-liberlism. It has no capacity to actually organize anything.
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I've looked it up and and it seems like German army was in Afghanistan.
Not surprised they found some way around it.
That's not a thing. Foreign deployment isn't really mentioned at all in the GG AFAIK. The constitutional court sanctioned it in the 90's tho, if the mission is part of a "system of preserving peace and collective safety". Supposedly NATO, the EU, the VN are that.
Maybe I boomer brained that one. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Nah you probably just confused Japan with Germany like acidsmiley said