Does Germany believe that being weak is an outreach for Russian friendship?
Two world wars ended the German problem:
Germany has learned from its past. Its strategy is not to maintain military force. It searched to find a basis for working with the Soviets. Its historic competitor, Britain, is out of the EU, and the economic alliance of which it is only one member pivots around German economic power. Germany has sought to avoid the threat of war while dominating Europe by making certain that Russia is not hostile and that France doesn’t seek alliance with it.
Well, it ended the 20th century German aggression problem.
The German question now is whether Germany will defend the West. The lack of military force shows that they will not.
Not that Germany didn't have significant military force during the Cold War. The West Germans probably had the best NATO army. But today? Nope. It's an embarrassment for Germany. Or should be.
And that attitude is supposedly to avoid making the always paranoid Russians worried about Germany?
Stop us before we rampage across Europe again? Are you effing kidding me? That's your excuse? After over 70 years of not being Nazis you are claiming that under the veneer of democracy you are just a bunch of barely restrained thugs eager to rampage around Europe? Really?
When West Germany built a powerful army during the Cold War, nobody in NATO was worried more about West Germany than the Soviet Union!
Allow me to pull out the clue bat before I'm too woozy to wield it:
I keep reading that the Germans hate their militaristic past so much that they don't want to fight.
Let's try applying the clue bat to Germany's collective skull on this issue.
Conquering and setting up death camps under the shield of a powerful military? That's bad. By all means, don't do that.
Having a military capable of fighting death cult enemies or stopping the Russians from moving west? Well, that's a good thing. Try doing that.
Nothing will prevent the Russians from claiming NATO is a threat. But a Germany better prepared to defend NATO will be key to stopping the Russians from moving west and holding their conquered ground.
