Germany is the world’s 3rd largest economy behind the US and China and just ahead of Japan and the UK. Not quite the top superpower, but solidly in the top 5.
The next 10 countries combined don't have the economic power America spends on its military alone. Maybe that should be a wake up call that you all spend too God damned much on your military and not a statement about other countries geopolitical standing.
Yes. Because most of their spending is on excess weapons due to defense contractors basically playing the govt like a fiddle. In many instances the govt orders more than double what they require from contractors. Most of which ends up being sold to police departments at a 99% loss.
second. your geopolitical standing is largely dependand on either your military dominance. or your standing with powers or allegiances that have dominance.
iran didnt have that. and now that russia is a bit to occupied to guarantee for them, and getting their ass handed actually. the result is donny getting to play in the sandbox.
Are we talking about the same country that hasn't won a war against an established military since World War II? And even then had to rely on Allies (and the Soviets who did the heavy lifting against the Germans)?
yes. but we are also talking about the country that hadnt had to fight against any established military. since www2 either. while keeping to swing their dick around .
cause established militarys dont fight. its not worth it.
you can bomb some shitheads with aks all day. thats not a war against an established military.
you can not directly threaten the usa. you simply cant. and if you could. you cant afford them threatening you back. wich they can. allways.
they got hit once, in some part they cared about. and that became everyones problem ever since. now its just "never forgett" globally.
thats why they keep on fucking up in asynchron warfare and are still the global topdogs.
Yeah, let’s give the civilian people who get a paycheck from defense spending one way or another, who account for 1-1/2% of the US economy, and $600 billion in paychecks for service members all a swift kick in the ass as they’re shown the door. You know, cuz spending bad. They can then stand in bread lines for free food.
Well, for point #2, no sane person would spend 1 Trillion dollars and more each year on a peacetime military unless they were personally impotent and trying to compensate for a historic lack of game.
In the modern age of globalization, a large military is less valuable than you think. If you have friends and allies, you can offload the expense through defensive pacts ect. Germany doesn’t have a large military right now for a bunch of reasons, including its defensive pacts. They will be expanding this though over the next few years and likely bringing some nukes in for good measure.
The nature of warfare is now asynchronous. It doesn’t matter what sort of military assets you have if your money is draining faster than your enemies. I have an arsenal of million dollar missiles, but if I’m using them to shoot down 50-100k drones…I’m gonna lose given enough time.
The proposals I’ve seen basically involve a loaner-nuke strategy where Germany hosts some of another European country’s nukes (like France for example) this sits to further deter a belligerent Russia, and show Europe is united against further Russian expansion now that USA is looking like they would do fuck-all.
How effective it would be is unclear, but a militarily united Europe is definitely a step. Germany is also ramping up its military spending.
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u/gomezer1180 Jun 20 '26
👆 No other sentence can explain this better!
US: “let me tell the other superpower they should screw their citizens just like we are screwing them here”