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Is it their old foe, France?

I'm getting the UK apology forms ready as we speak

They are going to invade Venezuela with the US.

Is it their old foe, France?

Turns out this was the real plan behind Brexit /s. The thing about a military is you may turn it against someone else after it is prepared, the reason you gave for militarization does not need to match the final purpose.

I find it somewhat ironic how the economies of Europe are so intertwined to prevent war (the official reason), but their core military organization is handled on a strictly national(ist) level.

Libs seem to think the only way to prevent world war 3 is to destroy or subjugate the rest of the world. So the only way to prevent the world war is to have it, I guess. Somehow that makes sense

The cold war promised multiple generations the end of the world. The end never came, the west won, and now in their final years have a yearn for what was promised

They are not horrified. They might be uncomfortable with it, but how can you be horrified if you think the most powerful army in the world is protecting you and keeping you safe and warm?

or if you had spent the last 50 years building nuclear instead

Could just be worried people calling to report scary drones 50% more than previously, the imperialist's metrics really are almost meaningless.

what are they measuring?

They are measuring things they report themselves. "This year we have reported 50% more incidents, give us 500% more funding".

The industrial potential of today's Europe is a pale shadow of what it was in those days.

Don't worry, WW1 was mainly kicked off by Russian intervention against the murder of Slavs.

If you're willing to do some research I've found libraries' newspaper archives to be a good source for that sort of thing, a couple years ago I did some poking around to see what the Allied coverage of the battle of the somme looked like compared to one of Ukraine's counteroffensives

What's important is to examine how they're preparing their military. Are they building their own weapons and hardware, or are they just buying US-made? Sovereignty isn't something that can be bought, they need the industrial capacity to actually build a war.

There's some of that, but a lot of their plans seem to just involve increased purchases.

As long as Germany doesn't have a real military, it will only ever be a vassal state of the US.

Cool. As a European myself witnessing the death of the western empire, we should be cheering for that. Less militarization means less likelihood of Europe turning to Africa Colonialism 2 Electric Boogaloo while it still has the upper hand. In 5 years all of the EU will be ruled by far right parties, the weaker the state repression apparatus (including military) the better for everyone.

They are not militarizing to fight the US lol.

Germany really has only two options left: keep being dependent on the US for energy, or invade Russia and steal their resources.

The green energy transition plan is being killed by China’s much superior renewable tech, and if Europe opens up to China, their domestic economy is going to be even deader than dead. This makes them even more reliant on the US consumer market.

So, they are militarizing to conquer Russia to gain independence from the US, since the economic cooperation route has been denied (the US bombing Nord Stream). The exact same shit that happened 90 years ago.

Atomization and destruction of society actually made the population much more vulnerable to conscription. They can just snatch people off the street and absolutely nobody will be able to do anything against.