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Aside from the obvious reason that no one wants to be shot and maimed or killed in an emergency, and that no one feels like wasting part of the best years of their life rotting away in a barracks:
Why the fuck would anyone want to fight for a system that—especially under this government and probably even more so under the next fascist oligarchy—doesn’t give a damn about young people and, on the contrary, is cutting back more and more on education and social services just to line the pockets of the already rich? “Solidarity isn’t a one-way street!” Oh, come on… just fight your own fucking wars if you think that’s what has to be done.
Because we don't fucking fight for 'the system' but for our families, our way of life, our freedom to say what we think and love who we want, and all those other soppy reasons. If anyone ever attacks Germany, you bet their 'system' is infinitely worse than any gripes we have with the current state of affairs.
That's not to invalidate your good points of criticism, but those are peace-time policy points. If we cannot ensure our own survival in a world where increasingly the weak are preyed on by the strong, a comment like yours might land you in jail or face down in a ditch. Seems worthwhile to me to defend a political system that mostly prevents that.
Because the one that is trying to conquer us is infinitely worse.
Did Iran try to conquer the US?
According to the Russians they also 'defend' themselves in Ukraine. And the enemy has always been the face of the devil no matter which side you ask in any war in history.
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Also: Are they? Our Western socies are, by the will and power of people like Merz and his pupper masters, transformed into cleptocratic oligarchies where the neofeudal ultrarich reign over their wage slaves. This outlook doesn't differ much from modern Russia. Which is exactly my point: If the system that expects me to fight for it doesn't differ from 'the ifinetly worse' enemy any more (due to the greed of the people that would los the most assets after a defeat).... why should I be motivated to die defending it?
You're confused, we're talking about Germany here.
Are you seriously trying to hypernormalize the likes of Russia?
Germany is a democracy with widening economic inequality. Russia is a brutal, expansionist dictatorship run by a Mafia boss. They are nothing alike and you know that.
They are CURRENTLY nothing alike. But if you're not seeing the possible trajectory of the current development of the German society you're either ignorant or surprisingly naive.
Looking at current polls: Are you absolutely certain that Germany will remain a liberal democracy if the AfD—those Russian puppets—are in power? Right now, it seems as though that is the will of a significant number of voters.
The U.S. is also formally a liberal democracy, but you can read in the news every day just how much of that exists only on paper and how little the separation of powers actually functions there anymore. Personally, I wouldn’t want to defend such a system—which, at least as things stand now, seems to be on the horizon here as well—with my life.
When AfD advisors are even publicly speculating about a “clarification of hegemony between France and Germany,” alarm bells start ringing—at least for me. (Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/usa-venezuela-afd-100.html)
Also this wasn't about the normalization of Russia but about showing how ,,We're just defending ourselves against the evil enemy" can end you up on the front of a war of aggression pretty quickly. The US for itself has waged several wars of aggression in the last decades, all internally excused with 'reasons of national security'.