Posted on 06/22/2015 9:24:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Parliament’s military commissioner Hans-Peter Bartels said on Monday that it is time for Germany to finally begin spending enough on its armed forces.
“Quality and quantity of equipment is a central theme” of his work as the Bundestag (German parliament) expert on military issues, Bartels told Die Welt.
He noted that German troops had recently taken part in the first exercises in Poland by a new NATO rapid-reaction force created in response to Russian interference in Ukraine, but “the equipment [for that exercise] had to be scraped together from across the whole army”. …
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As a conservative who has been worried by the complacency among we NATO countries, I sure love the effect that Putin is having on our alliance.
Putin is such an idiot, he is uniting and strengthening NATO, while actually being weak himself.
Go USA/NATO.
What’s that Dennis Miller said about the Germans reminding him of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis? He didn’t really enjoy their earlier work, and he’s not really looking forward to any new material?
Interesting
I don’t think the rest of the world wants a fully equipped German Army, yet.
Wow. All the Axis military powers are coming back. Japan. Then Germany. Next will be Italy. Funny think is this time the US will be aligned with the Axis nations.
Yah. I hear that Das Panzerlied is becoming popular again.
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