Berlin Chronicles: how Germany was left defenseless

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Berlin Chronicles: how Germany was left defenseless
Source: thefirearmblog.com


Germany on the brink


The peppy slogans of March last year were impressive. At that time, German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht assured that the country's defense capability would be restored in the very near future. They created a special fund for 100 billion euros, from which it was planned to transfer funds exclusively to the Bundeswehr. All this was flavored with loud slogans:



"Germany is not defenseless, Germany supports its allies, Germany will not let itself be intimidated by military threats."

It seemed to outside observers that the Germans intended to create a Fourth Reich, the degree of anti-Russian hysteria was so high. At a minimum, one should have waited for a quick spin-up of the flywheel of the military machine - in the very near future, the Bundeswehr was to receive hundreds of units of modern weapons. But by the end of last year, the German media sounded the alarm - Germany significantly weakened its defensive potential in the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Not to mention the possibility of conducting expeditionary operations.

According to Die Zeit, the country is not protected from the air, the shelters are in a deplorable state, and the public emergency warning system does not work. No more than four percent of the urban population can hide from raids in bunkers. And not for long - food and basic necessities are chronically lacking. The unfortunate burghers will have to rob supermarkets in case of a serious mess.

There is nothing surprising in this - NATO countries a priori calculated their arsenals and supplies for one month of active hostilities. Large military vehicles required completely different costs, which would inevitably affect the states of "social prosperity".


Source: lylamenke.blogspot.com

A little more than two months have passed since the end of last year, and already the new Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius states that Germany is defenseless against external threats. What exactly, he did not specify. But the capital of Germany turned out to be defenseless against missile strikes due to the complete absence of air defense systems. As you know, Skynex and Skyranger, who covered Berlin, are now in Ukraine.

The situation with the production of armored vehicles is no better. For example, to assemble hundreds of new Leopard-2s, the Germans will have to spend at least five years! Now the Germans have 289 tanks, of which only 137 copies are combat ready. The military industry of Germany is not even able to repair the failed equipment - there are no free capacities and specialists.

The same story with self-propelled guns PzH-2000, a hundred of which should enter service with the Ukrainian army. The contracts have been signed. Only now it will happen not earlier than in sixty-five months. The German industry is not able to produce tanks simultaneously with self-propelled guns - this requires billions of dollars of injections into the expansion of production.

It is not at all surprising that in these conditions the main armory The Czech Republic became the forge of Europe. The country has been able to maintain a remarkable stock of production capacity since the time of the Warsaw Pact. In fairness, the Czech industry did not suffer much during the Second World War either. Since the autumn of last year, equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been brought here for repairs, starting with obsolete machines of the Soviet period and ending with modern NATO weapons.

According to some reports, up to a hundred armored vehicles of various classes are repaired in the Czech Republic every month. It also promptly organized the production of a wide range of artillery shells - from 122 mm to 152 mm.

The German military-industrial complex, which the Kiev regime simply prays for, has remained virtually out of work in this situation.

On the side of the Armed Forces


Germany has been satisfying Ukraine's requirements for more than a year by supplying a wide range of equipment and weapons. As far back as last November, Scholz stated the transfer of the most modern systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "some of which are so new that they were produced in small quantities, some of them have not yet been delivered to the German armed forces." At the same time, the Bundeswehr itself had only forces left to protect one or two towns.

NATO "squeezed out Germany like a lemon" - these are the words of the European gunsmith Franz Haun, head of the KNDS group of companies. According to him, the outflow of weapons from Germany is so wide that the promised 100 billion euros will make it possible to catch up in 5-7 years. This is probably one of the few industrialists in Germany who really looks at things. For example, Rheinmetall chief Armin Papperger recently shocked the world with his intention to build a tank plant in Ukraine for Leopard 2. Indeed, there is nothing more to surprise and nothing more to promise Zelensky.

Echoes Haun and Boris Pistorius, pointing to epic gaps in the construction of the armed forces over the past 30 years. The main fault in this is the excessive peacefulness of the former leadership of Germany. More precisely, in the cunning redistribution of resources from the army to the social sphere. This is easy to do when the world's largest American air base outside the United States, Ramstein, is on the territory of the country.

If we take, for example, the ten countries with the highest spending on the army and calculate how much they spend a percentage of GDP on defense, it turns out that only Japan pays less than Germany for the needs of the military. Even in pre-war 2021, the Germans barely reached 1,1 percent of GDP with a minimum of two. Considering that such voluntary demilitarization has been going on for decades, the Germans need to multiply the costs in order to close the gap.

The hundred billion promised by Scholz is definitely not enough - we can talk about numbers with twelve zeros. Two questions - who will allocate such money without a total reduction in the country's industrial potential, and how will America look at such rearmament? Oddly enough, it was Donald Trump who, when he was president, sought to increase Germany's defense spending.

You can talk a lot about preserving the sovereignty of the country, but in the event of a real military conflict, it will be mostly Poles who will defend Germany. These are the ones who still demand reparations from the Germans, despite the lands alienated by Poland following the Second World War.


Source: charlesshopling.blogspot.com

In general, why do the Germans now have an army? Wouldn't it be easier to become a European factory of high-quality, but expensive weapons, transferring our own sovereignty into the hands of our older brothers in NATO?

Warlike Poland props up from the east, ready to defeat Russia one on one in words. From the west, Germany is protected by the nuclear power of France, which still has some military potential. However, everything is not so rosy here.

The French are leaving Africa in earnest and for a long time, Emmanuel Macron recently said. Former French colonies are emerging from the tutelage of Paris, not without the influence of Ukrainian history. Neo-colonial politics, in the words of the French president, are being replaced by a balanced partnership to "protect our interests and work for the common good."

The British army and navy, covering the Germans from the north, also squandered their arsenals on Ukrainian needs. The British especially did not need powerful ground forces - the island position allows such liberties.

Perhaps the most combat-ready player in Europe, Turkey, can cover from the south. If we do not take into account the consequences of a devastating earthquake, then it is the Turkish army, the only one in the Old World, that is capable of waging a modern war. Just what and to what extent Erdogan will ask for the possible patronage of Germany is hard to even imagine.

But the German elite is quite satisfied with such a disposition. It's all about years of negative selection. Decades of pseudo-democracy have bred a new breed of German (and European) establishment, lulling itself into the NATO umbrella. Voters demanded more social guarantees - the notorious "bread and butter" was produced to the detriment of "guns and tanks."

As a result, when a local conflict broke out on the eastern borders, it is difficult to maintain even the Ukrainian army, not to mention our own. It seems that this is becoming a new European future - foreign soldiers will guard the houses of the burghers. And the Germans will have to try so that they are American soldiers, and not someone else.
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  1. 0
    10 March 2023 04: 40
    Germany is again entering an era of change ... but it seems not only her, but the whole world.
    He will not be the same again ... it exploded well. smile
    Heck what here is the plot of world history as it turned out ... no one could predict that everything would not go according to plan for all parties, experts, predictors, bloggers and other optimists with pessimists.
    1. +1
      10 March 2023 05: 11
      All according to the classics: If you don't want to feed your army, you will feed someone else's! request
      1. +6
        10 March 2023 09: 52
        But the German elite is quite satisfied with such a disposition. It's all about years of negative selection.
        You might think that we are different!
    2. 0
      10 March 2023 08: 50
      Quote: Lech from Android.
      no one could predict that everything would go according to plan for everyone

      Do you know what "everyone" had plans?
      1. +2
        10 March 2023 12: 46
        Quote: Doccor18

        Do you know what "everyone" had plans?

        ALL had no plans. Only the Americans had a plan. And he's doing great. Now, under the laughter of the crowd and the cries of the media, all of Europe will hand over its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. And it will be replaced with an American one. But the Americans will not do anything for free, they will let you go on credit, credit, under Lend-Lease. And all dependence on the United States will also be on the defensive. The continuation will depend on the United States. The greed of the American military-industrial complex will win, they will simply drive the Poles, Balts, Romanians into the war
  2. -3
    10 March 2023 04: 41
    So this is what HPP is the demilitarization of NATO! And then Ukraine, Ukraine! Pans are fighting, forelocks are cracking at Svidomo serfs!
  3. -1
    10 March 2023 05: 02
    tanks / artillery / aircraft are all no longer needed. screaming for show.
    cheap kamikaze drones with satellite guidance in the amount of 100 thousand and any country in ruins and will not cost so much. 10 billion dollars.
  4. +2
    10 March 2023 05: 47
    the Bundeswehr after the end of the cold war is so in the pen that it is impossible to reform it in the shortest possible time even with huge infusions. But there the main thing is to start the process, the previous "ministers" did not have enough political will to do anything at all
    1. +1
      10 March 2023 11: 48
      Quote: Plane_Junkers
      But there the main thing is to start the process, the previous "ministers" did not have enough political will to do anything at all

      You greatly underestimate them. Just with the will, everything was in order there: they decided to pacifize and did it.
  5. 0
    10 March 2023 06: 06
    Berlin Chronicles: how Germany was left defenseless
    . Their choice... themselves, all by themselves!
  6. -1
    10 March 2023 06: 31
    "Germany is not defenseless, Germany supports its allies, Germany will not let itself be intimidated by military threats."
    Self-hypnosis for the purpose of self-soothing? I wonder who is so persistently trying to intimidate "poor" Germany? Isn't it Russia? Today, German guns are firing at Russian soldiers in Ukraine, and some German politicians are tearing their throats out in yells demanding "defeat Russia on the battlefield." Therefore, put your ambitions in a distant closet and refresh the historical memory.
  7. +5
    10 March 2023 06: 40
    Enough to worry about the Germans and the British, we need to worry about our industry and the army, Iranian and Chinese drones, Chinese armor, there are not enough shells, for that we have the best tank biathlon
    1. 0
      10 March 2023 07: 12
      These are not feelings for Germany - well, who cares about their troubles ?!
      Funny ...
      This is a throw!
      Like they don't have anything, they can't do anything, etc. and so on.
      And everything will get better by itself, it will resolve itself ...

      No, this is crap.
      Yes, right now they don't have enough power...
      So build!
      But they have money!
      And there are enough countries in the world with highly developed mechanical engineering, in Southeast Asia - South Korea, for example.
      Will make as much equipment as the customer needs.

      I won’t be surprised if the author of this opus is Ukrainian or somehow connected with Ukraine.
  8. +3
    10 March 2023 07: 05
    The French are leaving Africa in earnest and for a long time, Emmanuel Macron recently said.
    The author is apparently unaware that François Hollande made practically the same statement in May 2012.
    A few months later, France invaded Mali.
    Nonsense, utter nonsense, all these beautiful-hearted statements!
    Although no, there is a sense in them - a divorce and supposedly a smokescreen over true intentions.
  9. fiv
    -4
    10 March 2023 08: 22
    And why is it in photo number 3 that the fighters have one knee pad each? Did they send the trash or is it a wunderwaffe? Should I be afraid of this?
    1. 0
      10 March 2023 09: 50
      because they only squat on one knee. Carrying two knee pads is more inconvenient than one. Even better without a knee pad, but then quite unpleasant.
  10. +2
    10 March 2023 09: 05
    Koooechno remained, at least take it with your bare hands, yeah. Until 24.02.2022/22/XNUMX, they also wrote about the ZSU that the XNUMXnd, but podikasya, the second year went to everything, it still can’t budge them.
  11. +3
    10 March 2023 09: 13
    Quote: aars
    The French are leaving Africa in earnest and for a long time, Emmanuel Macron recently said.
    The author is apparently unaware that François Hollande made practically the same statement in May 2012.
    A few months later, France invaded Mali.
    Nonsense, utter nonsense, all these beautiful-hearted statements!
    Although no, there is a sense in them - a divorce and supposedly a smokescreen over true intentions.

    Heh, as recently as February 2022 sands, laurels were also spoken. Forecasting scheme is working)
  12. 0
    10 March 2023 09: 16
    Trump demanded an increase in Europe's military spending, not at all so that she would produce weapons .. But then, so that she would buy more of them from America ..
  13. +1
    10 March 2023 09: 32
    In general: NATO did not prepare for war in any way. She rested on peaceful realities, participated in distant skirmishes and saved on the military-industrial complex.
    But Putin and the Kremlin were pushing, pushing NATO since the age of 14 - hypersound, 2000 armats, petrels, Poseidons, terminators and hundreds of SU57s - and finally shook them up.

    They will start making shells, equipment, and increase the number of aircraft
  14. +4
    10 March 2023 09: 58
    – from 122 mm to 152 mm.
    , and what calibers are in between, I'm embarrassed to ask?
    1. 0
      10 March 2023 10: 08
      Hello Roman soldier
      There is a caliber of 130 mm, but this is already naval affairs, although it was written somewhere that they were put on land gun carriages, if necessary.
      1. 0
        10 March 2023 19: 32
        The 130-mm M46 gun is completely land-based. And for all antiquity, it is very long-range. A batch of such guns was supplied to Ukrainians by Croatia.
    2. +1
      10 March 2023 16: 51
      Hello. And 125 mm?

      Doesn't the image code fit in the length of the comment?
    3. +1
      10 March 2023 16: 59
      - from 122 mm to 152 mm., and what calibers are in between, I'm embarrassed to ask?

      We all know from A to B!

      And in the case - 125 mm and 130 mm.
  15. +1
    10 March 2023 11: 20
    Echoes Haun and Boris Pistorius, pointing to epic gaps in the construction of the armed forces over the past 30 years. The main fault in this is the excessive peacefulness of the former leadership of Germany. More precisely, in the cunning redistribution of resources from the army to the social sphere.

    Rather, not in a cunning redistribution of resources from the army to the social sphere, but in a cunning redistribution of the resources of the army itself into the social sphere. Simply put, an increasing part of the military budget went to the army's social and cultural life - through the purchase of new equipment, maintaining its combat readiness and training personnel. Moreover, all this happened against the backdrop of regular cuts to this same military budget.
    Now the Bundeswehr is very fond of blaming the crisis Frau Gynecologist, but she just completed the HEER2011 program developed and adopted even before her, which reduced the Bundeswehr to the level of the Reichswehr. The same program, according to which the Germans had 225 tanks left, of which 176 were combat. smile
    1. +1
      10 March 2023 11: 42
      Quote: Alexey RA
      cunning redistribution of the resources of the army itself in the social sphere. Simply put, an increasing part of the military budget went to army social and cultural life.

      In essence, the German War Department became the American Department of Veterans Affairs, and the War Department itself was liquidated. This allowed the Komsomol member to eat fish and ride a horse - at the same time to liquidate the army and not leave NATO, since formally the army continues to exist and the budget, if not two percent, but tens of billions of euros, continues to be mastered.

      By the way, the Armed Forces of Ukraine developed exactly in the same logic until 2014.
      1. 0
        10 March 2023 15: 52
        Quote: Negro
        In essence, the German War Department became the American Department of Veterans Affairs,

        ... and youth. smile
        Since the German Ministry of Defense until 2015 concentrated its efforts on the all-out reduction of the hardships and hardships of military service - improving the living conditions of military personnel and their service, up to the transfer of guard duty to outsourcing (because you can’t force personnel to guard duty on weekends). smile
      2. +2
        10 March 2023 23: 55
        hi
        In essence, the German War Department became the American Department of Veterans Affairs, and the War Department itself was liquidated. This allowed the Komsomol member to eat a fish and ride a horse - at the same time to liquidate the army and not leave NATO

        After active participation in two world wars, this is quite reasonable behavior for Germany. The beautiful German (Prussian) military machine did not bring much happiness, so there is no need to do it again.

        The opportunity to sit behind the broad back of NATO after 1991 is a wonderful thing. The burghers have never lived so well, even taking into account the accession of East Germany and the not always reasonable EU policy.
        Twice - Yugoslavia and Afghanistan - the Bundeswehr had to participate in military operations and it cannot be said that this made the burghers happier.

        Of course, after 2014 and 2022, the Bundeswehr began to move a little faster, but not in the sense of "give us weapons and new tank divisions again", but "let's restore air defense and missile defense, update equipment and supplies, well, cover the Eurofighter almshouse a little and buy, finally, F35".

        No one in Germany is going to make new divisions like the Poles.

        Poles do not care who they border on and where is the border of Poland? Well, let them deploy new units, change equipment to new ones, and in general - they want the first land army in Europe, so let them get it, Germany by and large does not care.
        "It's not all the same" was to "suddenly wake up" and realize "gas dependence" - so the problem was solved in a year.
        1. +1
          12 March 2023 13: 13
          Quote: Wildcat
          The opportunity to sit behind the broad back of NATO after 1991 is a wonderful thing. The burghers have never lived so well, even taking into account the accession of East Germany and the not always reasonable EU policy.

          Yes. If you are not going to fight ever again, then abandoning the army is a completely logical thing. And now only countries with increased greatness and their neighbors, unsuccessful in terms of political geography, are going to fight. In Europe, these are the neighbors of Russia, Serbia and Turkey.

          Because the architecture of NATO is outdated, as we see the last year. Only those countries that are ready to participate in hostilities should participate in the military bloc. Moreover, it is desirable against a common enemy, and not against each other.
  16. 0
    10 March 2023 13: 05
    Quote from Uncle Lee
    All according to the classics: If you don't want to feed your army, you will feed someone else's!


    If you have a choice. Post-war Germany (FRG) had no choice.
    And all the time the Germans were feeding someone else's army. Since the Bundeswehr is not the German army, but a branch of the American army, recruited from the native Hans, after all, the Bundeswehr was and is subordinate to the American generals. It is not surprising that the Germans had no interest in maintaining a large army of "Khivi" and they reduced the Bundeswehr at every opportunity.
  17. +2
    10 March 2023 13: 13
    Quote: APASUS
    ALL had no plans. Only the Americans had a plan. And he's doing great. Now, under the laughter of the crowd and the cries of the media, all of Europe will hand over its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. And it will be replaced by an American one.


    Unprovable. Did you hold a candle when making plans?
    The current course of events is not at all so beneficial for the United States.
    The dependence of the European Union on the United States is already total, while the weakening of the European allies is not at all beneficial. The United States could have imposed its weapons earlier, the reason is that American production capacities are not enough to arm all the allies. At one time, the Yankees allowed the Japanese to restore their military-industrial complex in order to properly ensure their grouping in Vietnam.

    So it won't be replaced. The Yankees would provide themselves in the right amount. It begins to dawn on them that a war with a serious enemy is not to drive barmaley across the desert and you still need more weapons from the BP.
    1. 0
      11 March 2023 18: 29
      Quote: Illanatol
      The dependence of the European Union on the United States is already total,

      Is not a fact. Only Norway has under a hundred billion of money invested in the United States. The Norse Social Insurance Fund sometimes twirls Black Rock and Vanguard together. Deutsche Bank has already surpassed Citibank in terms of investment in the global economy, Societe Generale Francs is on a par.
      The economy of the EEC is so intertwined with the economy of the United States and the British kingdom that the question of a single state is just right.
      No need to think in terms of the end of World War II or even 1992. The world is changing very quickly. And the Hans (and Europeans in general) know how to play long games.
  18. +2
    10 March 2023 16: 01
    Another Vigilant Falcon discovered that money does not directly and instantly turn into something material; suddenly, we need more non-financial assets: people, machines, time...
    1. 0
      10 March 2023 19: 40
      You can still order in South Korea, they seem to be ready to supply even out of stock. But the Germans, of course, it would be a shame to do such a thing.
  19. 0
    10 March 2023 22: 06
    Quote: Eugene Fedorov
    how Germany was left without protection

    recourse
    Blessed is he who believes
    Since ancient times, there have been blessed people and all sorts of hysterics in Rus'.
    Now there are propagandists.
    No links, no analysis of any kind.
    Only OBS, as argued in the AP.
    I’ll remind you:
    -Germany does not buy from the Russian Federation neither electronics, nor machine tools, nor cars, nor virtual training shooting complexes (Germany refused to supply in 2014), nor fuel equipment (Bosh ate all the production in Russia, took 99% of the market, and .. and leaves ), neither chemistry, nor composites, nor machine tools, equipment, industrial lines, nor (you can indefinitely)
    Germany is a country that exports high-tech products:
    deliveries of German goods to other EU countries amounted to €67,5 billion, deliveries to countries outside the EU amounted to €58,3 billion (including Russia). The main importers of German goods are the USA (€13,4 billion), China (€8,7 billion) and the UK (€5,8 billion)
    2. Let me remind you that during WW2, German industry worked as usual until 1944.
    3. The Germans are one of the few nations that can suddenly gather their snot into a fist and for a LONG time resist almost 1/2 of the planet, on several fronts.
    Count them lol: like a car does, this is populism for ₽, well, or sabotage / betrayal in the form of noodles on the ears, like for sheep that are being led to the slaughterhouse: they also blow diarrhea in the ears
    1. 0
      13 March 2023 12: 38
      Excuse me, where are your links, click "reminder"?
  20. -1
    13 March 2023 12: 36
    >> Supports from the east warlike Poland, ready to verbally defeat Russia one on one. <
    1938, she will be thrown, thrown again, and again the hyena will drool until the next opportunity.

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