There are some hold-outs. Like five guys with a tractor and protest banner standing on a highway overpass for a few hours. Some upside-down flags are still around, but most are gone.
That is world future,if leftist win.
Oh, the Ruskies have been playing that line for a while, and at this point even Serbia and Iran do not recognize their claims to Ukrainian soil.
Scholtz and the outgoing MinDef were former East Germans, and well, they grew up on the other side of the wall.
Yup, most of the German political class acts as if Moscow was its first employer ...
Can you go into more detail on this somewhere?
Uh..you do know the US is helping to demilitaroze Russia.
What kind of bullshit are you on? How can a country that was yelling at Europe to get proper military spending and start looking at what's happening on their eastern periphery for the last decade at least "demilitarising Europe"?
From the unification of Germany to date 32 years have passed. She was Chancellor for half of that period, her ministry comprising most of the 2nd half of those 32 years. It was her neglect and underfunding that destroyed the German military.
www.brookings.edu
I guess I was more curious about how the Budeswehr was destroyed, though this at least lets me know who exactly you were referring to.I googled
merkel and the destruction of german army
and this was in the first half dozen hits:
Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy | Brookings
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only revealed the willful ignorance of German politicians, businesspeople, and voters to Vladimir Putin's regime — it "has cast a dark backwards shadow over [the] tenure" of former chancellor Angela Merkel, argues Constanze Stelzenmüller.