https://taz.de/Tuerken-fuer-die-AfD/!5449750/

This is about Germans with Turkish background. It’s the same as in other countries: We came here legally and are law abiding taxpayers. These illegal newcomers are criminals and ruin the image of all immigrants. It’s about law and order and strong leadership. If you vote Erdogan in Turkey, AfD is closest in Germany. The Grey Wolves are the biggest right wing extremist organizations in Germany as well, so keep that in mind.

German-Turks are also specifically targeted like in this video by Krah appealing to nationalist sentiments and referring back to German-Turkish alliance going back to WW1.

scandals relating to Wehrmacht idolisation

Yes, this happens from time to time as does other crap. The severity of these cases varies.

In 2023 the Bundeswehr let go of 62 soldiers, among them 10 officers, for extremism. It’s not just nazis, but also for example anti-vax conspiracy nutters. I don’t have any comparisons of these numbers to other armed forces.

The Bundeswehr emphasizes democratic values and educates people along their principles of Innere Führung and Staatsbürger in Uniform. For example that soldiers are ultimately serving their conscience is stressed. Structurally the Bundeswehr also has differences to other militaries. There are no separate military courts for example. Crimes involving soldiers get dealt with by regular courts.

In 2019 about 15% of soldiers have immigrant parents or immigrated themselves. Of course they can be extremists just as well.

Some kind of armor is where it’s at.

Gelsenkirchen is a traditional working class area, which used to be secure SPD heartland. SPD has lost voters massively to AfD among workers over the years, including among the immigrant working class.

Soldiers in Germany tend to vote CDU. The last couple of years the head of the Bundestag’s defense commission Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann from the FDP was super popular. In the past SPD was also really strong. These two polls on the Bundeswehr subreddit have FDP and CDU together with a supermajority. Now that’s of course not representative, but gives you an idea that the military doesn’t vote far right.

Cocoon

Tetris Effect Connected

Cities Skylines

What remains of Edith Finch

Stanley’s Parable

China is ready to take over as the lead capitalist empire.

It’s late stage capitalism, bro, revolution is just around the corner, bro.

Repeat for 150 years.

It’s a tank. It’s not a main battle tank.

Now with double the amount of wheel!

Bicycle is the wheel reinvented.

NuII works

Russia needs to fundamentally change for that to happen. Maybe even disintegrate a lose much of their central and eastern asian territory. Russia is too big to be easily integrated into europe.

we side with Russia, we as EU Ukraine included

Become part of Russia’s empire is the only way this works.

I answered your question, you silly person.

Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own?

It’s not just about cost but industrial infrastructure and engineering expertise. There are rich and stable countries, that are unable to make their own advanced arms because their society and culture doesn’t value scientific study, education, and manual labor highly.

Saudi Arabia has a limited ability to make arms (assault rifles, armored trucks) while swimming in money. North Korea is dirt poor, but has the culture and determination to build tanks, artillery, ships, submarines, guided missiles, even ICBMs and nuclear bombs.

Which brings me to a point I didn’t mention earlier. Buying arms from abroad also buys good will and diplomatic relations. That’s a major reason why the Saudis buy mostly American and European arms.

Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own? Yeah it costs money to setup

It costs a ton of money, especially research and development into high tech weapons. Very few countries for example even have the technology to build blades for jet turbines. There’s half a dozen companies world wide that have the capability to make jet engines. Or even seemingly much simpler: making good ball bearings is surprisingly difficult and are required for lots of things. High quality optics? Extremely hard.

A weapons system pretty much all countries can assembly is the technical: a pickup truck with a heavy machine gun bolted to it. Making a car or a machine gun is already difficult and few countries have the metallurgy, precision engineering, trained workforce, etc. to make all the parts for them. The microelectronics and chips in the radio? Also not easy to make.

The supply chain is long, even for relatively simple systems. The more advanced the system, the fewer parts the local industry will be capable of producing.

R&D costs will be spread out over all production units. So if research costs 100 million, but you only build 20, it will be a hundred times more expensive than if you build 2000. That’s how the F-35 is more capable and cheaper than previous generation fighter jets.

So to build your own stuff, you need to a fairly advanced and diversified industrial base in the first place. On top of that you need money and a big enough number of units for it to be financially viable.

Sweden makes its own fighter jet JAS 39 Gripen. However it imports the engines, electronics, radar, and some other essential parts from the USA. That somewhat better for Sweden because it keeps some of the money spent in the local economy and keeps a trained workforce around. It doesn’t create strategic independence from the US though.

Totally. What where even those flame throwers everywhere?

Worst Star Trek movie so far.