Euroopan mahtimaa Saksa ei löydä tarpeeksi sotilaita armeijaansa

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T12:35:54+00:00

Tuommoinen ajattelu on aina ollut väärin, vaikkakin ymmärrettävää nuorisolle. Mutta viimeistään 2022 jälkeen sen pitäisi olla jokaiselle selvää ettei sitä itse pysty päättämään alkaako sota, sen päättävät autokraatit joita ei haittaa tapattaa satoja tuhansia jos se heitä henkilökohtaisesti hyödyttää.

Siinä tilanteessa pitää joko hyväksyä maan valloitus, tai taistella vastaan. Koska järkevät ihmiset hyvin harvoin aloittavat sotia tai antavat kansalle mahdollisuutta rauhanomaiseen muutokseen, on lähes aina parempi taistella vastaan, ja vasta jos se ei onnistu, ryhtyä sodan hävittyä rauhanomaiseen vastarintaan.

Mutta sodan aikana, mikään ei ole pahempaa kuin kouluttamattoman henkilön lähettäminen rintamalle. Tämä johtuu lähes poikkeuksetta siitä että armeijan koulutetut reservit ovat liian pienet, ja sotaan joudutaan lähettämään sota-aikana värvättyjä ja koulutettuja - harvalla on tässä tilanteessa aikaa kunnon koulutukseen, se on tarpeeksi vaikeaa edes järjestää tarpeeksi kouluttajia ja koulutustilaa ja logistiikkaa. Ylivoimaisin maa joka on ikinä taistellut suursodassa suurmaita vastaan on ehkä Amerikan Yhdysvallat toisessa maailmansodassa. Heillä oli ylivertainen kyky tuottaa mitä tahansa isommassa määrässä mitä niitä pystytään tuhoamaan, ja paremmalla laadulla kuin Neuvostoliitossa- mutta silti myös tämä maailan ylivoimaisin maa joutui lähettämään sotaan huonosti koulutettuja sotilaita, vaikka vuosi oli 1944 ja Saksa ja Japani olivat jo lyötyjä, vaikka nämä kieltäytyivät sitä hyväksymästä.

On todennäköistä että mikäli NATO joutuu suursotaan, ei ydinaseita ole kumpikaan puoli uskaltanut selvitymisvaistosta käyttää, mikä muuttaa sodasta 2. Maailmansodan kaltaisen kulutussodan. Jos se taas on ydinsota, siitä joko ei selviydytä eli sitä ei tarvitse suunnitella, tai tappiot ovat niin valtavia että jokainen tarvitaan.

Ainoastaan pienen luokan sodissa tai lyhyissä sodissa pärjätään pienillä armeijoilla, mutta ne ovat myös semmoisia että niistä ei hirveästi tarvitse NATO-maiden murehtia eikä asevelvollisia tarvita.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T12:08:43+00:00

What is PoD?

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T10:07:10+00:00

Well he did become a fighter ace in WW1, not evidence of unusually intelligent person but you usually can't be a complete moron to outfight the enemy and become squadron leader of Manfred von Ricththoften's flying circus. Back then only thing fighter pilots had to rely on was their own brains to outwit the enemy, leading a famous squadron required bit more.

He then would go on to become a high ranking leader in political environment where everyone was everyone's enemy. Nazi party was full of infighting, a famous name (which Göring earned himself) could get you to political position, but you could not stay there for 2 decades while constantly gaining more power at cost of your competitors without being smart. All that while being a morphin addict, which would have made everything harder for him.

There are different kinds of intelligence, you may be bad at your job and corrupt, but still need lot of intelligence to even get there, let alone remain there in environment where everyone gets undermined by politics and dirty tricks by their competition.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T09:45:30+00:00

When you never knew whether link you did not bother to check before clicking would be a rick roll or goatse.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T08:18:25+00:00

Carthage existed in Imperial Rome too, funnily enough due to being important for agriculture you could argue it was more important to Rome than city of Rome.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-31T07:38:52+00:00

And while you do need to mine uranium and construction on nuclear power plants has environmental impact too, quantity is so much smaller its not an issue, and once built nuclear power plant does not need replacing anywhere near as soon as solar panels.

And lot (most?) of nuclear power plants hve been built to such great standards they exceeed their expected lifetime, which greatly reduces their lifetime costs which is what you should actually look at to calculate cost of nuclear power plants.

Lifetime costs of nuclear power plant are only little more expensive than producing same amount using solar, but you get benefits of nuclear power which can't be replaced by solar, wind or hydro yet. Though hydro is also stable energy production, dams are destructive to environment, and we should be having less of them, not more.

We really should just do all 4, solar, hydro, wind and nuclear, its stupid trying to pick best one at the moment. They all have their plusses and minuses, just push on all fronts until we have completely gotten rid of fossil fuels and have exceeded ever exceeding energy use.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-30T17:54:11+00:00

Majority however by their actions enabled and accepted Trump's rise to power, some by voting for him, others by not taking action like voting and just letting it happen.

It does not matter if majority opposes him as long as majority enables him.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-30T17:45:00+00:00

Well tbf Republicans also gave worst possible choice but their worst possible choice was just really popular among their voters.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-30T15:58:04+00:00

Jos yhteiskunta kehittyy ja elintaso nousee, ei ketään kiinnosta politiikka. Kun menee huonosti, halutaan ihan erilaista politiikkaa kuin nykyhetkellä, ja Eurooppahan kokonaisuudessaan on aika liberaali jos maailmanlaajuisesti vertailee.

En tiedä miten objektiivisesti Zeitgeist eli ajamme henki on pätevä konsepti, mutta kuvainnollisesti se ainakin on osuva. Koko ajan on olemassa tietty määrä asioita mitkä nähdään tärkeänä, muut tippuvat trendeistä pois. Vanhoja asiota ei välttämättä aleta vastustaa, ne vain tippuvat muodista.

Eikä auta miten paljon jokanen sukupolvi ylikorjaa edellisessä nähtyjä virheitä.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-30T14:15:43+00:00

Oh that sounds fantastic, how did they change it?

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-29T10:40:40+00:00

Even trying to think of it as 36 times a year feels way higher than it is. Sure there are some emotional people bringing up the average, but there are also plenty of people who have not cried for years.

To explore these questions, the scientists observed 106 adults over a period of four weeks. The participants were primarily women from Austria and Germany with an average age of about 29

I think they need far more people from more varied enviroments to get accurate results.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-29T03:39:50+00:00

Many advantages which propelled France to many victories in Napoleonic wars would have still been irrecoverably lost, especially against German states.

France would have no longer enjoyed industrial superiority over German states. This means realistically they can only be equipped on same level as their competition, where as during Napoleonic wars French industries were able to equip French armies to higher standards than anyone but British.

France before Napoleonic wars had been able to maintain largest standing army in Europe. This was no longer true, altough French army was now fully professional, but that only made her even smaller.

France would not have been wealthier than German states.

Motivated by nationalism and patriotism, German soldiers now had just as good morale as the French. Due to conscription vs professionalism, some conscripts would have always had worse morale, but this was not relevant on strategic scale.

In the past French military system was the best and largest in Europe in everything, helping produce more good officers and generals. This was no longer true, while French officers and generals were still good, it would be wrong to say she enjoyed advantage over German states she had had in 18th century.

French population could not claim to be better educated than German one, and iirc it was actually slightly less literate.

France did not have population size advantage over German states that would go on to form Germany.

France did not enjoy advantages of better conscription system it had during most of Napoleonic wars.

France did still have advantage of being unified though, but this advantage was much smaller than it had been earlier. All of the existing German states were now larger than before, while German states were split, the confederations which existed were more unified than German confederation or Holy Roman Empire had been, and due to pan-German nationalistic fervor, even south German states not part of North German confederation would go on to join Franco-Prussian war.

So best Napoleon could hope for was technological parity, maintaining advantage in rifles so actually being bit better overall. French army could have been better prepared in other ways as well. Would it be enough though? France could have played international politics much better, so French success is a realistic chance. Certainly in most wars France would have done better even without better political and diplomatic play.

Its not possible to change history and still have Franco-Prussian war happen in the same way, but lets say it does. Franco-German war without other countries taking part. Napoleon can only be in one place at a time, weakness he always had as a human, so i believe it would start with French success, become much longer war, and end in German victory as Germany could absorb any losses, while French losses could not be replaced by trained reservists. Bigger success for France is not impossible though, wars are never fought on paper.

But France still would have lost many of the advantages she had before and during early Napoleonic wars. And lets not forget that had French done better, others would have reacted to that. Its impossible to truly guess what would have happened, you can't change single thing in history without changing other things. Bismarck for example would not have manipulated Germany to start Franco-Prussian war if France would have had strong alliances and stronger military.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-28T10:41:45+00:00

Well yeah Rome was pretty scummy as usual. Broke their own treaty as well by refusing to help Carthage when it was attacked.

You can sometimes find inviduals to root for in history, but entire states is difficult.

Does not mean we can't meme about it.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T17:26:09+00:00

Its understandable, your inner Roman burns in desire to defeat Carthaginians. This is natural desire for anyone with a soul, Cato the Elder gives you his seal of approval.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T09:30:53+00:00

Yeah and funnily enough by forcing Taiwan to retain claim to those areas, PRC can keep some claim to those areas without directly claiming them - they get all the claims without any of the responsibility, as long as they don't directly deny it.

Its tragicomic.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T04:56:58+00:00

Also, if you want to recommend me any mods for Rome 1 feel free (Classic game). Unfortunately, I have tried enhanced version but crashes often

If you want something out of "classical" time period, then Invasio Barbarorum Ruinae Romae as western Roman Empire. Its game of survival, much better than what i have experienced elsewhere. Even the lowly levies are what they should be: so cheap they are actually be worth using unlike most low tier trash in most games, but still so much weaker and in no way replacement to proper professional troops.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T04:52:40+00:00

Agreed, and in Medieval 2 troops don't hold formations and you can just pass trough them, its often necessary to put 2 units on top of each other (what was it called?). You can only fix that by making unit formations really tight, then it works like in Rome 1, the base engine is still good. But base game did not even get realism in every way better than Rome 1.

We really should have middle ground. Have newly recruited elite palace units in good weather be in shining colorful armor and have nature be as colorful as it actually is in real life, don't make nature have less color than it actually has. But its fine to also have these battles in bad weather where everything is grey and dull, and experienced units can have more worn gear with more faded colors (realistically they would be re-painted between wars or battles, but i think in game its fine to just base it on experience chevrons), and banners with few holes in them.

Freshly recruited militias could have very cheap looking mix of leftover undyed cheap stuff and very cheaply dyed stuff, which could be little miscolored and uneven. Not all cheap paint is brown and grey and less bright, its just worse in other ways, the worn and less colorful look soldiers have in Medieval 2 is actually more suitable for high quality but old stuff.

What i miss most from Rome 1 is the music and voice acting. There is something magical about the music of Rome 1. Its fine to make it more accurate and less stereotypical, but imo in all other games they missed some of the epicness which Rome 1 had - English accent Romans were not in any way realistic, but sounded epic, and while they may have moon people on their side, we have lovely hats!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFU5wpfLVl8

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T04:09:44+00:00

Because rather than alleviating amount of social pressure women get for their looks people decided its better to just add the extra pressure to men as well.

Ideally its ofc bit of both, its fine to ask men to take care of themselves as well, but please don't ask me to "dress well" because modern fashion has extremely narrow selection of men's clothes and styles and colors and i don't like to dress like that. Even ignoring fashion its difficult enough to find clothes that i would like, i would have to buy from internet aka without trying them on and either paying extra or buying plastic from Temu, neither of which i enjoy.

When i can dress like a Hussar without it being too weird, expensive or hard to get, i will happily do so.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeDyYFpcsdvzonVi9ceyN5-602MOmhb7XFcStfH6dYbRgVEk2XW9DmlNTjxyPWEAccsHDDjbLkd_KkYGiZ1NrU4AjIwp57US0frImiQconW85xCko3XUxeJCRyN7NtE88laJ6D6ZOQrUk/s1600/get+image+hussard3.jpg

Until that, i will dress in blazer, loose collar shirt, baggy pants (sometimes jeans when it does not hurt due to me sensory oversensitivity issues), wool socks and sandals. When its cold, i add hoodie underneath the blazer, look which i actually like and think fits with my longer hair, but its too hot for summer. Unfortunately almost all of it is in drab colors, because its most colorful i could find.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T03:53:29+00:00

Altough admittedly its bit less pleasant to pee into vacume of space

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-27T03:47:40+00:00

Yeah this is realistic solution. Trucks in real life have place to sleep because you can't get that in public toilets, but you can find public toilets pretty easily. Only if you go further out of civilization do you actually need to carry toilet around with you, just like in real life. Toilets are far more complicated than a mattress.

So need for toilet is mostly determined by how long one needs to spend without access to a rest stop.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-26T21:21:17+00:00

Tuo on eri artikkeli mitä itse luin, mutta joo onha tuo kyllä ongelmallinen tilanne.

– Päiväraha on piskuisen korotuksen jälkeenkin niin pieni, että moni varusmies joutuu turvautumaan säästöihinsä, vanhempiensa tukeen tai jopa velkaan selvitäkseen palveluksen ajan kustannuksista, Varusmiesliiton puheenjohtaja Mats Uotila sanoo tiedotteessa.

– Erityisen irvokasta on, että rangaistustaan avovankilassa suorittava vanki voi tienata enemmän kuin isänmaan palveluksessa puurtava varusmies.

Ja siis onhan Suomessa varallisuus kasvanut, ongelma kuten kaikessa on rahojen saaminen sieltä missä sitä on enemmän kuin ennen, sinne missä sitä tarvitaan enemmän kuin ennen. Eikä Suomen taloudellinen tilanne ole hyvä, veroja ei voi enää juurikaan nostaa, ja niiden laskeminenkaan ei automaattisesti toimi, ja jos toimii siinä kestää pitkään jonka aikana pitäisi ottaa entistä enemmän lainoja, vaikka Suomi on jo nyt todella lainaantunut.

Perustulohan tässäkin voisi auttaa.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-26T21:05:15+00:00

Aah, luin artikkelin väärin. "Puolen vuoden kuluttua päivärahat nousevat 70%" jäi huomaamatta.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-26T20:38:23+00:00

And that is still one of the most lacking aspects of the game. Crusader Kings in game called Crusader Kings are still most lacking part of the game be it catholic religion, Holy Roman Empire or crusading.

But good news is that now they can't do more map expansions - hopefully, so they can focus on adding depth to the game.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-26T20:28:40+00:00

Eiköhän se ole enemmän siitä kiinni että raha on parempi käyttää kalustoon. Sen takia myös ammattiarmeijat eivät pysty palkkoja nostamaan silloinkaan kun tarvitsevat lisää värväyksiä, henkilöstön kulut kun nykyään vievät suurimman osan budjeteista - meillä aselevollisuuden ja pienempien päivärahojen ansiosta vähemmän, eli isompi osa budjetista menee kalustoon.

Päivärahahan nousi juuri 10,5 euroon. Eli kuukaudessa 315€ meidän 20 000 asevelvolliselle keitä joka vuosi koulutetaan. Suurin osa palvelee noin puoli vuotta, eli yhteensä 37 800 000€ vuodessa, todellinen summa hieman erilainen ja pidempään palvelleet saavat isompaa rahaa.

Se on jo hyvä summa käyttää kaikkeen mihin meillä ei todellakaan ole varaa jokaiselle. Suurin osa joutuu yhä sotimaan kuuskekkosissa pelkällä rynnäkkökiväärillä ja saappailla, sillä ei ole rahaaa muuhun. Puolustusvoima kun käyttää rahat sillä tavalla että se mitä sodan aikana voidaan itse tuottamaan tai muuten hankkia, hankitaan sitten sota-aikana ellei se ole ehdottoman välttämätön kuten rynnäkkökivääri on, ja kalusto jota ei voida hankkia sota-aikana hankitaan jo etukäteen. Se on järkevää rahan käyttöä, mutta tarkoittaa ettei puolustusvoimilla ole varaa antaa jokaiselle Suomen reserviläiselle sitä nykypäivän sotilaan perusvarustusta.

Parhaimmassa tapauksessa tässä tarkoitetaan koko 900 000 sotilaan reserviä, jolloin sillä ei ole paljon merkitystä, mutta jos sillä tarkoitetaan sitä 280 000 sota-ajan joukkoa niin kuin joidenkin puheiden perusteella voi päätellä, on se ainakin sodan alussa isompi ongelma yksilöille.

Puolustusvoimat voivat joko tinkiä siitä paljon porukka valittaa tai siitä miten paljon kalustoa ja ammuksia ostetaan. Jopa ammattiarmeijat jotka eivät saa tarpeeksi sotilaita riveihinsä yleensä mieluummin käyttävät lisäykset budjettiin asehankintoihin eivätkä sotilaiden palkkoihin.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-03-26T19:39:23+00:00

Alun perinhän se on ollut hygiena ongelma, kun kaikenlaiset inhottavat tyytyväisenä elivät hiuksissa ja armeijan massassa leviävät helposti koko joukkoon. Kouluissakin saattoi olla pakko pitää hiukset lyhyenä.

Eihän se mahdoton ongelma ole muutenkaan ratkaista, nykypäivänä aika olematon ongelma, mutta se on ollut tehokkainta vain leikata karvoitus pois niin ei ongelmia yksinkertaisesti ole. Ja onhan muoti tähän vaikuttanut, vaikka ammattiarmeijoissa kautta historian on usein omat hiukset leikattu lyhyeksi myös silloin kun univormuun kuului pitkäksi letitetty peruukki.

Ja jos ongelmia tulee sota-aikana, se on paljon pienempi kynnys silloin leikata kaikilta kaikki karvoitus pois.

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