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Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.

If the prospect of a broader conflict in Europe seems remote for many, some countries at least are taking it seriously – and, in the term used by Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, taking steps to get populations kriegsfähig: war-capable.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has dramatically raised security tensions across the Baltic region, prompting Finland and Sweden to abandon decades of nonalignment and join Nato. Military capability, however, is not all: citizens have to be braced too.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Germany: we need to invest in our Army to resist a war

also Germany: let's spend 835 million Euros in new parade uniforms

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-ausgehuniform-ausgaben-100.html

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Then you should check out some other stuff centurii made

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TBF, the introduction of the new uniforms was already decided in 2018 by the prior government under the MoD Ursula von der Leyen, and the new uniforms will be implemented step by step until 2032.

Er erläuterte, dass die Modernisierung der Dienstbekleidung 2018 entschieden, dann aber zurückgestellt worden sei, um vorher wichtige Kampfbekleidung und -ausrüstung zu erneuern und zu modernisieren. Dies sei in den letzten Jahren geschehen, so dass nun auch das Vorhaben bei der Dienstbekleidung weiter umgesetzt werde.

Zudem erstrecke sich die Finanzierung des Gesamtvorhabens bis 2032.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bundeswehr-ausgehuniformen-100.html

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's just striking how everything has so much inertia. Ukraine has been holding the fort for 3 years now, and we're looking at those immense budgets for useless stuff.

Same with the bunkers, let's make an app to see where you can take refuge in one of the bunkers ... let's see... that can hold short of 500 thousand people country wide. That's fine, 1 citizen in 160.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

New uniforms aren't useless. If the Bundeswehr wants to be an attractive employer they need modern uniform. I read online that people who served find the current ones very outdated. We just need to invest more in the military in total

[–] ramirezmike 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's not like the money just disappears, it goes into the economy, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

yup, into the pocket of the companies with the best lobbyists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You think uniforms are useless?

I would be interested in hearing why every single military in the world uses them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

…which again, every military has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

yup and i find 80% of a BILLION Euros a whole lot of money for looking good for ceremonies and street parades but that's maybe just me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but isn't part of that always black budget for secret shit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Today to 2032 is eight years. 180k people in uniform, currently. The Ausgehuniform is the service dress uniform, not the parade uniform (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_dress_uniform ), so more an everyday uniform outside of combat and.. Ah, hell, someone else put it maybe better: https://augengeradeaus.net/2024/11/neue-dienstanzuege-erlaeuterung-vom-verteidigungsministerium/

Stop reading Bildzeitung.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

alright fair enough, thank you for clearing that up. i'm not reading that piece of shit of a rag btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah turns out even tagesschau copied these Bild word emissions. :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Germany is also adding reliance of China, which is basically the proxy war handler of Russia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Clearly as German imports from China peaked in 2022.