Oh no, big country at war has more active soldiers than small countries at peace! Who would have thought?
Oh, and those small EU countries combined already have a bigger army than Russia, massive reserves obviously not counted because … again … they are not at war. And yes, we are also speaking about actually well trained and equiped soldiers, not Russian standards.
If anything, an argument in favour of an EU army would be a reduction in total size, due to removal of redundancies.
Oh, and those small EU countries combined already have a bigger army than Russia, massive reserves obviously not counted because … again … they are not at war. And yes, we are also speaking about actually well trained and equiped soldiers, not Russian standards.
And we also have the German army, for comic relief!
(I’d love it if our army was equipped and trained for more than that…)
Yeah, that’s a very popular story. Interestingly the voices of actual NATO allies working with German soldiers are usually the exact opposite of the media and political narratives.
It’s the second-hand perception of someone who works as a civilian worker in the Bundeswehr. It’s slowly getting better but the damage from two decades of pointless austerity politics (and a lack of enthusiasm beforehand) is definitely felt.
Basically, they’re trying their best but the equipment stockpile isn’t up to scratch yet and it’s currently so hard to find good recruits that the government is considering bringing back the draft. It’s not that the Bundeswehr is bad but there’s a lot to do before it’s fully functional again.
I think its partly a scheme of the Bundeswehr to get more funding.
Look or Helicopter’s cant fly over Water and our gun’s shoot diagonally we really really need the extra 100 billion.
