Germany to Trump: We won’t help you reopen the Strait of Hormuz
(www.politico.eu)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 15:11
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from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 15:11
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“This war has nothing to do with NATO. It’s not NATO’s war,” Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. “NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory,” he added.
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Good answer. Fuck Benjamin and Donald Ducks war. They don’t even know why they did it. NATO is not for undocumented wars.
Glances at the last 80 years of NATO history
:-/
There is a huge difference though. No terror attacks on USA, they already said they “nuked them back to zero” with the other operation. They couldn’t define what the end-goal is for operation fury.
They don’t even agree on why they do this internally. And now they want other states to join in on a war happened because of Trumps small dick. I say fuck no. Let him have the consequences of this retarded administration for once. Let him dig his own grave.
You just have to pretend Israel is part of the United States
They are not, and isn’t a part of NATO
The United States is absolutely part of NATO.
And Israel functions as a forward operating base, from which European military powers can control the Suez and the Eastern Mediterranean. It’s fundamental to the Western allied control of North Africa and the Middle East, even before you get into its function as a money laundering outfit and testing bed for military technology and policing strategy.
European leadership has a closer relationship with Israeli military than Turkish military, as a point of comparison.
In fairness, they know exactly why they did it:
For The Idiot: Israel needs our help to stop the 40-something-year-old “imminent” threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb (that was supposedly already stopped earlier last year when we “thoroughly destroyed” thir enrichment labs.”
For Bibi, it’s an opportunity to realize Israel’s version of manifest destiny, and to kill people he doesn’t like. Remember how everyone was all, “Boy I hope W doesn’t go nuclear on the middle east” after 9/11? 10/7 has had the same effect on Bibi, except he was predisposed for the merciless violence. He’s never seen these adversaries as “people.” W rarely thought about them at all.
But not out of principle … our ships just don’t go that far without breaking down!
lol is that true? are you german?
It is a bit of a meme in germany that our military equipment suffers from a lack of maintenance. Also there were a bunch of cases of new weapons systems just failing catastrophically or having huge security issues.
My country is a bit towards the south and nobody really knows how our ships still manage to float.
We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.
The guns are fired… Every now and then. Sparingly. We still have ammunition from the 70’s in stock. Some times we even manage to misplace equipment.
Yet somehow we’re considered as the reliable ally, although a bit… wierd.
“Bedingt abwehrfähig” is the bureacratic term the government uses to explain that the German military, in particular the equipment, is broken beyond any hope of repair.
Germany sold some submarines to Greece that were leaning over on one side out the factory
So Canada is buying the Korean ones then?
BMW makes submarines?
Isn’t the pride of the German Navy a sailboat called the Gorch Fock?
hey gorch fock yourself
jk
Dunno but the German word for team is mannschaft, and there was a German cycling team using Giant bikes, so the were the Giant Mannschaft.
Giggity.
And for 80 years, we were quit happy with that!
— love, your neighbors
Are we going have that brain-dead ‘freedom’ fries bullshit again? Is this really going to be a repeat of 2003 Iraq? Seeing the limitless supply of brain rot in the US, probably we will.
“Get Ze fucked”
“but…but…usually when I fuck things up someone sorts it out for me. Why won’t you fix my massive fuck up?”
In the words of Knorkator
Knorkator… That’s a name I haven’t heard for a loooong time and today I learned that they are back from their creative break… Since 2010 🤣
They have a double day gig at Columbiahalle in Berlin, and tickets are hot.
Aber… Zum Glück bin ich ein alter Mann, das geht mich alles nichts mehr an!
For now, I’d dare a bet on Merz getting back to sucking corpo cock