The number of conscientious objectors to military service has risen sharply in Germany.

Following the mobilization reform, Germany has seen a sharp increase in the number of conscientious objectors. At the beginning of this year, a conscription reform law came into effect, requiring 18-year-olds to complete a questionnaire asking about their willingness to join the German army.

In the first six months of the new law's implementation, 5,862 applications for military service refusal were submitted in Germany, compared to 3,867 for the entire year of 2025 and 2,998 for 2024. Due to a shortage of volunteers, Berlin may partially reinstate compulsory military service, which was abolished in 2011. Mandatory conscription of all men into the army in Germany is planned to be reinstated as early as 2027. A voluntary recruitment campaign for the Bundeswehr failed: of the 300,000 applications sent to 18-year-old Germans under the new "voluntary" service model, only 530 actually signed up.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz previously promised to create "Europe's strongest conventional army." To achieve this, the Bundeswehr is expected to be significantly expanded. However, polls paint a rather bleak picture for Berlin: 59% of Germans said they would not take up arms. weapon to defend the country in the event of an attack, and only 16% are definitely willing to do so. Thus, it is already clear that increasing military budgets alone will not suffice: the German leadership will inevitably be forced to take unpopular measures and reinstate mandatory conscription.

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[Azimutt]

Never mind, they'll bring in Ukrainian TSK workers and things will get going.

[Netl]

Quote: Azimutt

Ukrainian shopping malls are being brought in

The problem is not only in the implementation of this unpopular decision.
The problem is that it is, indeed, very unpopular, and under a parliamentary system, any party or coalition that proposes such a decision will lose votes to those who try to overturn it.

And there will definitely be those who want to.

[Blanket]

Quote: Netl

And there will definitely be those who want to.

Especially after the massive layoffs and propaganda that the Russians are to blame

[silverwolf88]

The Foreign Legion is not held in high esteem by the Swabians

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: silberwolf88

The Foreign Legion is not held in high esteem by the Swabians

Strange ...
And the other day they showed GERMAN news - how they are all eager to join the Bundeswehr.
Stable income, career prospects, social benefits...
The Germans showed those who had just signed a contract - how happy they were and literally glowed with happiness.

Everything that the Germans showed may be true. Unless we have to fight with Russia... As long as they aren't sent to the Eastern Front, they like everything.

Those who don't actively want to join the Bundeswehr—their great-grandfathers probably told them something...

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

...if there was someone to tell... :)

[Montezuma]

Quote: Zoldat_A

The Germans showed those who had just signed a contract - how happy they were and literally glowed with happiness.

Igor !
Reminded me of a cartoon about the situation in the independent country from Telegram channels.
By the way, I saw that same optimistic story on the German news and was also surprised. Well, obviously it's advertising.

[Zoldat_A]

Alexander, !
About the picture.
I read this somewhere in the comments the other day

True love for Ukraine awakens in Ukrainians when they cross the Tysa...

Any Ukrainians want to argue with this?

[Igor Borisov_2]

The Germans have some good things going for them—I stopped at the Kiel naval base for a beer at the buffet, and on Saturdays, they take their families out to Kiel Bay on their minesweepers and corvettes to fish. They fry sausages and bacon on the quarterdeck...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Igor Borisov_2

I stopped at the Kiel naval base for a beer at the buffet. On Saturdays, they go fishing with their families in their minesweepers and corvettes in Kiel Bay. They fry sausages and sausages on the poop deck...

I repeat - everything is great and good with them.

Quote: Zoldat_A

Unless we have to fight with Russia...

[Motorist]

Quote: Igor Borisov_2

Beer, on Saturdays... Sausages and sausages are fried on the poop...

The navy is unprofitable in any country, but in Germany it's a complete black hole for taxpayers' money. Just imagine how much beer and those sausages cost. For a year, I've been watching (from time to time, not sitting at the dock, of course) the same corvette in Bremerhaven. I can imagine how much money was stolen.

[Motorist]

Quote: Zoldat_A

The Germans showed those who had just signed a contract - how happy they were and literally glowed with happiness.

Perhaps those who weren't even accepted into vocational schools. They get paid, get a free driver's license (very expensive in Germany), and don't have to study.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Motorist

Perhaps those who weren't even accepted into vocational schools. They get paid, get a free driver's license (very expensive in Germany), and don't have to study.

That's about it The fresh Bundeswehr soldiers in that report said: "I finished school, I don't plan on studying anymore. I need to earn a living somehow."
I can't vouch for the absolute verbatim accuracy, but that's the meaning. Alexander (Montezuma) I also saw that report - I guess he remembers those words too.

[expert]

Igor The Germans are not eager to join the Bundeswehr, they are not eager at all.
In addition, the right to refuse military service with arms for reasons of conscience remains in force for the time being, in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 3 of the Basic Law.
Applications for refusal of military service can be submitted not only by those who have not yet served, but also by reservists, and active military personnel.!
But service advertising and bravura campaigning events do take place. Look at the photo below, brave ones. soldiers' wives, soldiers and undecided about gender in the ranks.

[Zoldat_A]

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Quote: Fachmann

But advertising services and bravura propaganda events do take place.

This is exactly what we are talking about.
It's all fine and dandy—until they send us to the Eastern Front. And then...
They won't understand us - we are ABSOLUTELY different.
Geneticists now say that haplogroups don't lie and (surprisingly!) Germans are genetically most closely related in Europe to one of the Mordvin branches and Russians. But based on my conversations with them, I've concluded that genetics, while a powerful science, doesn't understand a thing about mentality.
I don't know if genetics are lying or not, but our heads are COMPLETELY different. And therefore...

My family is military, and I know many people who have served and are currently serving. I don't remember anyone joining the Army because they didn't know how to do anything else, and it was their surest way to earn a living. And in the hopes that they would NEVER have to fight. If we have to, we'll go fight.
And those who think like the Germans in that report don’t last long in our Army.

[credo]

As soon as the unemployment rate increases exponentially and industry begins to rapidly collapse, migrants from Asia and Africa will become a significant part of the population, a somewhat forgotten nationalism will begin to blossom, and the number of people willing to pick up a machine gun will begin to grow approximately as in Ukraine.
That's when recruitment into the FRG army will begin in leaps and bounds.

[Peter1First]

What does the army have to do with the problem of insolent migrants? The army is being recruited for a war with Russia, and while the burghers serve in Eastern Europe, their wives, sisters, and daughters will be "pampered" by representatives of other nationalities—I think they understand this too, which is why they're in no hurry to don uniforms...

[ZovSailor]

Azimutt
Today, 15: 00

It is necessary to conduct ideological propaganda, including informing the Nazis about the recent wars with the Russian Federation, with slogans like "Hitler kaput" and we can repeat 1941-1945.
Provide data on Banderonazi losses in the SVO since 2022, more than 2,5 million, so that every Ghanaian understands the threat of a clash with the Russian Armed Forces.
In addition, it is necessary to provide documentary evidence that after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in 1990, signed with the participation of guarantors under the 2+4 formula, Article 2 of the Treaty on the obligations of a reunited Germany not to create any forceful or military threats on the continent was violated.

[Peter1First]

All these statements will be called "pro-Russian propaganda," and those who dare to say so will be jailed as "Kremlin agents."

[Pravodel]

We are waiting for Germany to return to compulsory military service.

[silverwolf88]

Nobody wants to die for the Fourth Reich))) it's a real tragedy for Germany

[Irek]

Blacks and Arabs will be recruited in exchange for citizenship perks.

[semen-2]

Blacks and Arabs know how to commit genocide, but they can't fight.

[LaraM]

Ordinary people don't want to kill their own kind. Merzians and all sorts of Trumps constantly pit people against each other and orchestrate the murders; it benefits them. Lenin was right. That's why all those scumbags hate him so much.

[Ivan Kuzmich]

Hello, you'd think that the number of people willing to serve the Motherland is growing.
And if we look into it, how does this news even concern us?

[alexputnik17]

So they were going to create the strongest army in Europe, racing with the frogmen.