• @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    12 years ago

    But there’s no additional money available for infrastructure and social services within Germany. Something something Bundeshaushalt excuse and EU federal debt limit.

      • @crackajack@reddthat.com
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        Trolls and vatniks have been telling to the people it’s “getting cold” since last year to dissuade more support for Ukraine. Well, a lot more will lose than just heating for homes by tolerating Putin.

  • culpritus [any]
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    12 years ago

    What about that whole ‘Ukraine did Nordstream’ narrative? Guess Germany knows it’s a cover story.

    • sadreality
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      22 years ago

      I heard Zelensky did himself while on vacation in the Baltic. No big deal, get a boat, get some snorkerls, boom!

      All of this in NATO waters but he borrowed harry potters cloak, so it worked out.

    • I don’t think the majority in Germany care about nord stream, even if it was intact, we stopped importing gas from Russia more than a year ago and no one plans to resume it anytime soon. It’s like slashing the tires on a car you sold for scrap last week.

      • Hyperreality
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        02 years ago

        Russian propaganda.

        Anti-semitism inspired by thinkers like Dugin and Prokhanov is popular in Russia.

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify

        TLDR: Russian ethnic nationalists, don’t see Jews as the primary victims of the holocaust, they think of Russian Christians as its true victims, and even go so far to argue that Jews orchestrated the holocaust and/or the war. That’s why they don’t see a contradiction in a country led by a Jew being nazi. IRC they also recently blamed Ukraine for instigating an anti-semitic riot in Dagestan. Not that it would matter, because propaganda allows people to engage in double-think.

        As someone who’s pretty left wing, it’s very unfortunate because these fossils (and a younger generation who confuse contrarianism with critical thinking) have often infected left wing parties, ensuring they’ll never have any influence on government and can be easily discredited for even their most sensible solutions. Communists supporting far right ultra-capitalists and often the exact same people who helped accelerate the catastrophic fall of the USSR.

        • Krause [he/him]
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          and often the exact same people who helped accelerate the catastrophic fall of the USSR

          You mean America and NATO? You know, the guys who actually did that…

  • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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    So how close to losing and being forced into an unconditional surrender does Ukraine need to be before Europe stops sending aid at their own huge expense?

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      Huge expense? Not one life lost, all infrastructure intact and got rid of mostly 80’s military hardware while getting budget for new stuff and a whole lot of free field testing and marketing for export.

      We are not sending gold bars or euro bills, we’re paying local companies to produce ammo or sending surplus hardware “for the value of $$$” that would otherwise sit in a hangar somewhere.

      This is the cheapest war “Europe” has ever fought, can’t say the same about Ukraine or Russia.

      • @LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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        The reason they’re trying to fast track EU membership for Ukraine, a country that in normal times would stand zero chance of membership, is so that its debts to the US will become all of the EU’s. This won’t be cheap.

        • IjonTichy
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          That’s the stupidest take I’ve read in a long time. This is just not how any of it works.

          • @LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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            Why do you think the EU would want a shithole like Ukraine (even before the Nazi’s ran the place) as a member? Open to your genius take.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    02 years ago

    Great timing, I’m sure everybody is forgetting how it cost a small fortune to heat their home last winter right about now.

      • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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        -32 years ago

        Germany is now running deficits to support a war that’s already been decided. Ukraine is a corrupt country where many weapons given to it find their way onto the international black market. The standard of living in Germany is getting worse. Using deficit spending on a non-productive good like weapons to a foreign country that is corrupt will accelerate Germany’s decline.

        • @statist43@feddit.de
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          So you think its better to dont support our partners, and let autocrats take what they want, bc we have bad money management?

          The standard of living is declining everywhere on the world. Germany is still havimg it really good. We are just nagging, but we have really much. in my opinion we have to help other countries which have it bad.

          • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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            If you’re going to stop Russia from invading Ukraine why aren’t you putting German troops in Ukraine? You’re not helping your partner your killing Ukranians to weaken America’s enemy. Tell me what the difference between Israel and Russia is and what they’re doing to their smaller neighbours is. And then tell me why Germany condemns one atrocity but supports the other. It’s not about supporting a partner and I think you’re being naive or disingeneous if you think so.