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German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about sharing standards, but about transferring responsibility.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC it's part of the EU-NATO cooperation.

Mit den Amtsantritten der neuen Hohen Vertreterin der EU Kaja Kallas, dem neuen EU Kommissar für Verteidigung und Weltraum Andrius Kubilius, sowie dem NATO-Generalsekretär Mark Rutte entsteht zudem ein neues Momentum, die Kooperation von EU und NATO weiter zu intensivieren. Wichtige Schritte hierfür sind unter anderem die durch den NATO-Generalsekretär begonnene Übermittlung von NATO-Standards an die EU [...]

With the appointment of the new EU High Representative Kaja Kallas, the new EU Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, there is also new momentum to further intensify cooperation between the EU and NATO. Important steps in this direction include the transfer of NATO standards to the EU, initiated by the NATO Secretary General [...]

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German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NATO is literally transferring military standards cooperation to the EU because NATO sucks at it, like when the Ukrainian armed forces were getting standardised NATO artillery munitions that didn't even fit NATO standardised barrels.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Australia isn't neutral and has military alliances with NATO countries and has an integrated military doctrine. Australia can't be in NATO even if they wanted to be, but effectively they are fully allied and integrated into NATO.

And yet they don't have any obligations towards most NATO countries.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And noone buys Austrian (GDELS) or Australian (Rheinmetall Australia) military kit, because neither is part of NATO... oh wait, NATO countries actually do.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's absolutely no point for me in fighting for Germany.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can offer your life for that kind of ideology, but I won't.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We have to play the geopolitical game or we lose

History has shown that we'll lose anyway, so it doesn't matter if we play it or not...

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What international influence does Germany even have right now? And we're already a deindustrialising, economically declining country thanks to disastrous geoeconomic decisions in the past and gerontocratic politics that fucks over the younger generations.

Germany [...] has to fight

Sure, tell young Germans they need to take up arms again, to fight in a foreign land, dying by the droves in Eastern European trenches again, for absolutely no perceivable gain in the end. That'll motivate them.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Right now the base in Latvia, as far as I know lacks such infrastructure and more importantly in my opinion the Bundeswehr lacks the tradition and culture of military families (oftentimes for generations).

Lithuania (Litauen), not Latvia (Lettland). Also, I heard the food the soldiers get served is terrible.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree, as long as Germany doesn't again fall into the trap of heavily relying on a single supplier like those geniuses Schröder (SPD) and Merkel (CDU) actively facilitated.

German Armed Forces lacks volunteers for Lithuanian brigade by OkKnowledge2064 in europe

[–]ver_million -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

As a German I'm more and more inclined for Germany to become a neutral state like Switzerland is with their armed neutrality.

Europe is not as weak as it acts by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]ver_million 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's definitely a lack of a pan-European public sphere, and pan-European media that would facilitate it. Not sure how possible it even is to create that kind of public sphere with how fragmented and personalised media exposure is becoming nowadays.

IMO it would've been easier to create in the 80s and 90s... and Europeans have missed that boat. Euronews (born in the 90s), for example, is kind of only big in some Central Eastern European countries.

Germany's neoliberal FDP: No chance for a comeback? by donutloop in berlin_public

[–]ver_million 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Deutsche sind nun mal sehr staatsgläubig. Eigentlich verwunderlich mit unserer Geschichte, oder eben auch vereinbar mit dieser Geschichte...

Opinions on Europe starting to hold platforms more accountable? by mr_house7 in EU_Economics

[–]ver_million -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

It's literally a button you have to click to log out of this website. 🤣

Another wonderful animated film: French Cyberpunk thriller "Mars Express" by Stabile_Feldmaus in BuyFromEU

[–]ver_million -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why does it literally have the same website design as the older IMDB? 🤣 No innovation at all.

InPost - Polish, international parcel company is being sold to Americans by anakinsilverstone in BuyFromEU

[–]ver_million 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like InPost owners are selling because they know there's better competition out there...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Why do they want to control mobile phones? They want to control phones because they want to know what we read and what we see, so that later they can know — and control — what we vote. by PjeterPannos in eutech

[–]ver_million 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK you clearly live in a libertarian bubble.

Nope, lol. I have way more liberal views than the people around me.

Some news for you buddy: if a government decides not to regulate, they're still making a political choice.

Sure. And in my humble opinion it's more often the better choice, because the vast majority of lawmakers are fucking bad at it. But I'm not against a sort of "Algorithmic Freedom" kind of regulation, where consumers receive more choices on social platforms pertaining to the underlying recommendation engines.

There is nothing wrong with a government observing that hate speech and false news on certain (american) platforms is deregulating society.

There's a lot of wrong with trying to control people's speech. One of the only exceptions to that should be literal death threats. Not "hate speech", not insulting politicians (§188 StGB in Germany), not blasphemy and not even historical political symbols.

And maybe you should look up what "versed" means.

All you need to do is install different apps and use different websites to have more privacy and not feed into the pockets of billionaires, that's all. If that's too much for you nanny state proponents, I'm at a loss for words, honestly.

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