What’s more embarrassing, your SAMs malfunction falling into the sea or you accidentally shoot down a friendly multimillion dollar drone. My guess, the SAMs have a disarm control.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 28 2024 17:20 utc | 3

It gets worse. Part of the ammo used on the ship is no longer available or being made so if what they have is spent the ship will go home.
“…ein Teil der Munition der Fregatte ,Hessen’ nicht mehr nachzubeschaffen ist, weil es die entsprechende industrielle Kapazität nicht mehr gibt“, so der Politiker …
„Wenn die Bestände also leer geschossen sind, kann die Marine sie nicht mehr nachfüllen – und muss die Fregatte abziehen“

Posted by: Steve | Feb 28 2024 17:34 utc | 5

The Germans were very shy. They couldn’t ask what the Americans were doing there.

Posted by: CIROC | Feb 28 2024 17:36 utc | 7

I had to go look peinlich up
embarrassing
peinlich, beschämend, unangenehm, genierlich, fatal, prekär
painful
schmerzhaft, schmerzlich, peinlich, schmerzvoll, qualvoll, unangenehm
awkward
umständlich, unbeholfen, ungeschickt, peinlich, unangenehm, schwierig
I will go with all of the above. Germany is a strange colony of empire and the cognitive dissonance therein is off the charts as shown by the actions of the government.
I keep reading snippets about Germany trying to break out of this stranglehold but, like America, the opportunity will be provided by external pressures ….the China/Russia axis
Such interesting times….

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 28 2024 17:38 utc | 9

This is monty python level comedy but in the real.

Posted by: alek_a | Feb 28 2024 17:42 utc | 11

Well where in Europe can we be proud of our politicians, the policies they pursue, the state of our economies or the health of our morals and culture ?
France does not look good but at least you are protesting about it. That you can be happier about. Here in Germany we believe literally anything spewed by the MSM….

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Feb 28 2024 17:46 utc | 13

Actually its not “peinlich”.
It just shows that american air defence missiles won’t hit american air targets.
I think it is by design and not by malfunction.
Posted by: HEL | Feb 28 2024 17:18 utc | 2
And that could be the reason, why Erdogan buys Russian air defense –

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Feb 28 2024 17:47 utc | 15

Note – German military budget at ~€80 billion is close to that of RF at ~€100 billion.

Posted by: Exile | Feb 28 2024 17:55 utc | 17

Posted by: HEL | Feb 28 2024 17:18 utc | 2
If it was “not embarrassing”, if it was “by design and not by malfunction” as in “it just shows that american air defence missiles won’t hit american air targets” — would a not-embarrassing, well-working system not abort the launch rather than let the missile be wasted uselessly?

Posted by: A.G. | Feb 28 2024 17:57 utc | 19

thanks b… i wish you’d write more often on the insanity that presently fills in for germany…

Posted by: james | Feb 28 2024 18:09 utc | 21

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-21-war-patriot21-story.html 2 minutes to find this tidbit.
The idea of US weapons and Nato weapons not “being able” to shoot down other allied weapons is wrong as proved during Dessert Storm 2 and the pilots KIAed. One US and one British aircraft. The POS Patriot couldn’t hit a scud but could certainly kill one of its own.

Posted by: Tmike | Feb 28 2024 18:20 utc | 23

WMG | Feb 28 2024 18:18 utc | 24
Ansarullah is denying this.

Posted by: bevin | Feb 28 2024 18:26 utc | 25

@Tortuosit | Feb 28 2024 18:22 utc | 26

“Peinlich” is usually meant like “embarrassing”.

Same word as “Pinlig” in Norwegian, which means “embarrassing”.

Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 28 2024 18:32 utc | 27

A small and discrete German contribution to world peace. Of course, it would be better if Germany openly sided with Huthis and against the murderous practices of Israel, but changes in Germany tend to be gradual. Characteristically, UK made its own small steps first: immobilizing aircraft carriers, pretending that Trident does not work, but scoring a direct “friendly hit” raises passive resistance to the next level.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Feb 28 2024 18:37 utc | 29

Are you in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing with the wrong (U.S.) sort of people?
Are you beginning to choke, or even gag? Panicking?
Try The ‘Peinlich’ manoeuvre, and your discomfort will be over.

Posted by: scepticalSOB | Feb 28 2024 18:46 utc | 31

any news about the Houthis cutting data cables in the red sea ?
Posted by: WMG | Feb 28 2024 18:18 utc | 24
Reuters doesn’t cover it, i.e. it shouldn’t appear in German mainstream media. It’s that simple for us. This is the system we are supposed to trust.

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Feb 28 2024 18:51 utc | 33

Die Schaumweinsteuer bei der Arbeit! OMG!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaumweinsteuer

Posted by: Wolle | Feb 28 2024 19:18 utc | 35

After having owned a few pieces of “German Engineering” I can safely say that they can’t engineer an electrical system to save their lives.

Posted by: liveload | Feb 28 2024 19:27 utc | 37

@WMG | Feb 28 2024 18:18 utc | 24
Houtis have denied attacking any cables

Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 28 2024 19:34 utc | 39

Aww… 🙁 Germany has been turned into the gimped pierrot, the sad whore-clown. 🙁
Maybe USA isn’t really your friend, Germany? 🙂 But that cannot be! You all are so stunning and brave, on the right side of history even! 🙂 Keep bathing less, eating less, and freezing your ass at home in the dark for Ukrainian victory. Poverty sharpens the senses, you might learn whether who governs you really likes you.
😉 Say it: “Olaf Schultz fights for me! The Greens fight for me!” Repeat it like you mean it! 😉

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 28 2024 20:08 utc | 41

So that’s the Bundeswehr as I know it.
In my basic training, gloves and camouflage cream were issued, used and then withdrawn because of the risk of cancer.
@b Perhaps your expectations are too high.
Budism advises here: Halve your expectations and double your satisfaction.
”
Inspector Marine
Kaack: “Since we’re going into a fierce battle there, as you have to assume from everything you see there, only a unit, a ship that can assert itself in terms of its armament and whose crew is 100 per cent trained to deal with this threat comes into question. The frigate “Hessen”, which we have selected, is prepared for this. She is our gold standard, so to speak, if I may put it that way. She comes from the active command of a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force Maritime. What makes her special is that her radar systems and weapons are optimised for just such an eventuality. It has systems on board that have a range of around 400 kilometres and can therefore pick up even the smallest contacts.” And in a thoughtful tone: “It will be the most serious deployment of the German Navy since then.” The depressed mood and gloomy expressions on the pier in Wilhelmshaven at the farewell underlined this statement all too clearly!
”
https://marineforum.online/rotes-meer-und-eunavfor-aspides-fregatte-hessen-ausgelaufen/
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Posted by: 600w | Feb 28 2024 20:22 utc | 43

Take away the US Empire, and Germany would have no serious secutity concerns.

Posted by: Feral Finster | Feb 28 2024 20:34 utc | 45

@ rico rose | Feb 28 2024 19:30 utc | 40
thanks.. it amazes me how far germany has fallen and i can’t understand the psychology at work with the german people, other then to quickly think they suffer from some form of historical collective guilt to allow themselves to be led by the nose, thanks usa-nato and etc. etc.. collective amnesia maybe?? it is hard to understand for me..
here is the translation from @ 36 patroklos quote of kant.. thanks patrolklos!
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-inflicted immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without the guidance of another.”

Posted by: james | Feb 28 2024 20:39 utc | 47

“Deutschland! NATO
Dein Atem kalt,
so jung und doch so alt”
The dashing frigate fires its salvo

Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann…

and run… out of missiles.
***
The super duper submarine fails to fire its own.

Look / If you had / One shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?

***
The mighty aircraft carrier breaks down on leaving port.

Let her go, let her go, god damn her!
Wherever she may be;
She can look this whole world over
But she’ll never find a man like me

***
The indestructible Abrams joined the BigCat at the grill party.

“Deutschland!
Mein Herz in Flammen
will dich lieben und verdammen”

***
And Emmanuel thinks he’s Buonaparte at Arcole. But just making pyramids in the sandbox

Gib mir die Hand
Ich bau dir ein Schloss aus Sand
Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann
Die Zeit ist reif, für ein bisschen Zärtlichkeit

Posted by: La Bastille | Feb 28 2024 20:42 utc | 49

obviously propaganda works and it is alive and well in germany… that would be part of it.. how does germany come up with a fanatic like baerbock, or a stooge like sholtz? what is in the german psychology to put these people at the front of the line?? granted, it is not much better here in canada with trudeau, freeland and etc.. i give you that!!!

Posted by: james | Feb 28 2024 20:42 utc | 51

@ Patroklos | Feb 28 2024 18:56 utc | 36
Kant’s essay merits two cheers; the third has to be withheld because of the circumstances under which he wrote. Behind his positing Frederick the Great as the enlightened monarch par excellence (the last two paragraphs of the essay are, to modern ears at least, appallingly obsequious) is a plea for him to be just that, and to allow his people to strive toward enlightenment. Thus he can put in the mouth of his ideal monarch the words “Räsonniert, so viel ihr wollt, und worüber ihr wollt; aber gehorcht!” — because the enlightened monarch would never demand that his people obey an unenlightened order. It also follows that the enlightened monarch verges on being a precondition for the enlightenment of the people, rather than someone who can be enlightened or subject to enlightenment himself. Kant, after all, had no desire to be subversive. (He would subsequently express some sympathy for at least the ideals of the French Revolution, if only privately — standard use of the term “private”, not Kant’s!)
It’s easy to see how easily the Kantian house of cards collapses. In an attempt to keep this from happening before the end of the second page of his essay, Kant posits a dichotomy between “public” and “private” exercise of reason by the subjects of — let’s face it — an absolute monarch. The former is the free exercise of reason, but only by a “Gelehrter” and only in a theoretical context; the latter is little more than “shut up and do as you’re told” in the context of fulfilling one’s duties. Thus the dichotomy is not only arbitrary but does not exist in real life, as there is no sharp delineation between the “public” and “private” spheres, especially in an absolute monarchy, however “enlightened”, and of course the less- or non-enlightened don’t count anyway. And just to be safe, Kant ends up advocating for “ein Grad weniger von [bürgerlicher Freiheit]!” — reason being paradoxically best exercised when freedom is restricted.
Kant doesn’t deal with the possibility of considering what “enlightenment” would be under a less than enlightened monarch — would criticism of the monarch be justified? would enlightenment of the people be precluded? One sees the limits Kant set upon himself in his exercise of “public reason”, especially because he devotes most of his essay, as he himself admits, to a consideration of what a pastor should say to his flock!
This is all, I imagine, music to Scorpion’s and LoveDonbass’s ears. Myself, I’m much more a fan of “Friede den Hütten, Krieg den Palästen!”

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 28 2024 20:49 utc | 53

A snippet I got from the Slavyangrad TG channel:
“[…]Pistorius like Scholz is a sitzpinkler (man who sits down while he pees), because much like the German missiles their piss would miss the mark.”
Love those compound German words.

Posted by: expat | Feb 28 2024 20:54 utc | 55

Never interrupt your enemy…
What is more embarrassing?
Targeting or failing to hit?
I’d be tearing a strip of the German navy command for being crap! Imagine if it was a real war!
🤡
‘vorsprung durch technik’

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 28 2024 21:17 utc | 57

Maybe USA isn’t really your friend, Germany? 🙂
True, and the SPD (or at least Olaf) knows it.
We ( Germany, EU ) have a massive issue with US 5th column personell in high positions. ( vdLeyen, Baerbock, Merz, CDU*, Borel, ….. )
they are like a cancer, remove the cancer kill the patient.
and a large part of the population does not get it.
I could scream!

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 28 2024 21:40 utc | 59

Interesting for me is a discussion how it could happen that the country after reunification dissolved from a self confident to an unsecure character?
Posted by: rico rose | Feb 28 2024 19:30 utc | 40

“Dissolved”…Nope.
The situation and the German economy after reunification were quite positive. Within the framework of a capitalist, social market economy.
Until 2020

In 2016, Germany recorded the highest trade surplus in the world, worth $310 billion. This economic result made it the biggest capital exporter globally. Germany is one of the largest exporters globally with $1.81 trillion worth of goods and services exported in 2019.
The service sector contributes around 70% of the total GDP, industry 29.1%, and agriculture 0.9%.
Exports accounted for 50.3% of national output. The top 10 exports of Germany are vehicles, machinery, chemical goods, electronic products, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, transport equipment, basic metals, food products, and rubber and plastics.
The economy of Germany is the largest manufacturing economy in Europe, and it is less likely to be affected by a financial downturn.

Helmut Kohl, Gerard Schröder and finally Angela Merkel, for 30 years German policy has been consistent towards Russia.
A strategic economic partnership from which both sides (if Putin is to be believed) hoped for a geostrategic rapprochement.

It was clear from the early 2000s that this rapprochement between Russia and Western Europe was not desired in Washington.
The German CDU & SPD have been infiltrated by committed Atlanticists, and the Greens have done so in an extraordinary way.
In military terms, Germany had no need for modernization. It was merely an industrial activity for peripheral countries. No one ever envisaged fighting anyone outside Germany (it was forbidden by the German constitution), least of all Russia (very bad memories and a surrender agreement in 1945 in Potsdam that is still in force for the Russians).
***
The decision to give up coal “for ecological reasons”, then nuclear power for safety reasons (which I consider reasonable), then the development of supposedly renewable but above all intermittent energies has increased dependence on Russian gas to gigantic proportions.
Which wasn’t a technical, financial or political problem…
Nord Stream 1, launched in the early 2000s, has delivered 55 bcm/year since 2011. NS2 was subsequently launched.
Russia was in a position to deliver all the energy Germany would need.

The strong point was also the weak point.
Nord Stream exploded, there will be no investigation, and Germany is back to what it always was: a technical and industrial giant in need of energy.
It was the problem in 1914, it was the problem in 1941, it’s the problem again, but now Germany is under trusteeship.

As Epstein, Germany didn’t commit suicide

Posted by: La Bastille | Feb 28 2024 21:48 utc | 61

Dima speculated an interesting possible reason for EU troops in West Ukraine, tied-in to Poland’s ongoing border restrictions of everything flowing east to west across it.
He figures: If Russia is going to sometime advance into Kharkiv, Odessa and elsewhere, there will be millions of anti-Russian Ukie migrants making a rush towards the EU … which, as we know, is sick to death of those slimeballs. So, with Poland and France and Germany and the other “security agreements”, perhaps non-fighting EU border security is the concept Macron was foreshadowing. Of course the EU can’t say they’re doing it to corral the Banderites and social climbers.! They’re saying it is to “block Russia attacking Europe” … [eye roll]. It might be that NATO is, behind the scenes, greenlighting a sort of EU Coalition Army which is not bound by NATO rules and doesnt LOOK LIKE it is declaring war on Russia. Imo, the so-called security agreements are just flexi-docs to be used however the mood flows.
Plus, with the present Transnistria-Moldova tension, EU countries have multiple reasons to slip boots into Ukraine without a big hoo-ha, all to thwart Russia moving to protect PMR.
Plus, as some think, the current NATO exercises (Jan-May) are readiness against Russia moving towards Odessa. The Black Sea coast is precious to the US, so expect them to defend it anyway they can.
Conclusion: This SMO/war is far, far from over. People seem to ignore that Ukr still has 300k-500k troops in the field; another 500k it wants to mobilise; innumerable ground and some ammo; some planes; lots of allies ISR; lots of NATO helpers; lots of FPVs; and, worst of all, an intractable fantasy to win. So, lots of little falling villages in the Donbass DOES NOT signal the end is near for Ukraine nor happy days yet for Moscow.
Please everyone, stop thinking the end for Ukraine is just one more fallen stronghold away. There’s still a LOT MORE demilitarisation to go.

Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Feb 28 2024 22:00 utc | 63

@La Bastille(#51): OMG!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc

Posted by: Wolle | Feb 28 2024 22:22 utc | 65

“Missing” will hereafter be known as the Peinlich Maneuver.

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 28 2024 23:05 utc | 67

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 28 2024 18:56 utc | 36

I for one, wish that it would be so, and hope too that Germany attains once again its rightful position in Europe. I believe Putin hopes for it too and that this time round perhaps Russia and Germany could represent the possibilities of a strong Ost-Europa. America must be evicted from Europe and the undermining of its culture through immigration, wokism and neoliberalism must be reversed. Dangerous talk I know, but what else is to be done? Let Kant tell us:
Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.
[Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-inflicted immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without the guidance of another.]

Hear Hear, Bravo!
Dugin is calling for a ‘Fourth Political Theory’ to replace the liberalism which prevailed over communism and fascism, all three having taken over from whatever remained of feudalism and its various aristocratic institutions in Church, Crown and Society at large. The challenge seems to involve how to return to some sort of traditional societal solidarity, including a sense of loyalty and shared sense of the sacred, without reverting to now out-dated religious doctrines and ritual. To do this the society has to rediscover its bedrock character whilst finding ways to reflect and promulgate the same in new, fresh and ever-evolving ways. Can Germany do such a thing? Maybe once Russia completes the transition, which Dugin believes the ongoing war will help fashion from the forge of braving conflict and sacrifice, Germany will be inspired to follow suit.
Germany, not Russia, is the natural bridge between East and West, for Germany resonates within Britain and France quite naturally, and also, I suspect, within traditional Russia. They are also fully ready to face East as a dynamic, valuable part of the ongoing Eurasian civilizational rise.
There is so much positive potential right now in the midst of so much ghastly blundering and heart-rending sacrifice of life and limb. Let us hope and pray such blood sacrifice will help germinate the seeds of a better future.

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 28 2024 23:40 utc | 69

“Missing” will hereafter be known as the Peinlich Maneuver.
@Posted by: Honzo | Feb 28 2024 23:05 utc | 69
“”Missing” will hereafter be known as the Peinlich Maneuver.”
👏👏👏
Boom. Boom. You win! I spitted my bed time cocoa
I thought I had it with my ‘vorsprung DORK technik’’.
I bow before a greater wit. More please.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 29 2024 0:17 utc | 71

Patroklos @ 36:
“… I for one, wish that it would be so, and hope too that Germany attains once again its rightful position in Europe …”
Could you explain what you see as Germany’s “rightful position” in Europe?
What some may see as Germany’s “rightful position”, others may see as being (at the very least) disadvantageous for Germany’s near and not-so near neighbours, and at most even catastrophic. The post-1945 relationship between Germany and Mediterranean Europe, in which Germany drew skilled workers from those countries to work in its industries and exported manufactured goods to them (thereby stymieing development in those nations and making them dependent on tourism or raw commodities as exports), was not necessarily an ideal one for all parties involved.
Germany consistently exporting more than it imported might have produced balance of payments results that flattered its politicians but over the years (decades even) this would have led to its workers having a lesser quality of life than they were entitled to, and the nation’s resources draining (even if bit by bit) outside its borders.
Also Germany’s “rightful place” in Europe surely implies other nations in Europe (particularly France) must also have their “rightful place”. But what if their “rightful place” conflicts with Germany’s “rightful place” – because their national interests intersect with those of Germany?

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 29 2024 1:18 utc | 73

@ La Bastille | Feb 28 2024 21:48 utc | 63
good post, although i agree with oriental voice on the issue of merkel.. otherwise – good post! thanks..

Posted by: james | Feb 29 2024 1:44 utc | 75

Why does everybody keep shooting down their own shit?
Russia’s problem is their missiles actually work. Jets are expensive.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 29 2024 4:08 utc | 77

@ Wolle | Feb 28 2024 22:22 utc | 67

@La Bastille(#51): OMG!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc

That’s it.
I just finished writing my response to James, OrientalVoice, Patrokolos but it’s very long.
And the Rammstein song explains everything. I have always found that Song admirable in every way.
For those who do not speak German, a first understanding is possible https://affenknecht.com/lyrics/deutschland/
Lyrics with Englisch translation available here.
But watching the video is a must.
Thanks for providing the link for those who didn’t know.

Posted by: La Bastille | Feb 29 2024 5:19 utc | 79

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Posted by: Miona | Feb 28 2024 17:26 utc | 4

This is a welcome change from all the political dialogue we get here. Personally I am partial to a Hot Girl, but I want to check they are not contaminated.
Unfortunately many ‘Hot Girls’ are zionist freaks: I hope you have checked these girls aren’t IDF with a penchant for shooting children in the head? Burning down hospitals? Starving grannies?
Sorry, I just wouldn’t want that sort of ‘Hot Girl’.
What about Hot UkroNazi Babes? There’s nothing worse than undressing a woman and finding she’s got a tattoo of Stepan Bandera or a Wolfsangel on her butt. That would be a passion killer for me, never mind the ordinary sort of killer as too many of those Ukranians are.
Hope you can ensure that no fascistic murdering swine are among your harem or brothel, whatever kind of scam it is. The patrons of this bar are quite discerning in this matter, so you may be not reaching the right audience.
Best of luck!

Posted by: JulianJ | Feb 29 2024 6:38 utc | 81

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 29 2024 1:18 utc | 75
I guess as a leader intellectually, along with France, Russia, etc, rather than just a passive Atlanticist stooge. I didn’t mean dominating others, economically or militarily. ‘Rightful place’ as one of the powerhouses of the European tradition.

Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 29 2024 7:41 utc | 83

Bahahaha is this the famous German Engineering Wonders? 😀

Posted by: Macpott | Feb 29 2024 9:02 utc | 85

Bahahaha is this the famous German Engineering Wonders? 😀
Posted by: Macpott | Feb 29 2024 9:02 utc | 87
referencing the German Navy “shootout”
Not taking down the reaper drone may be caused by a “burried” IFF feature?
( afaik Hessen sports the US canister launch system )

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 29 2024 11:25 utc | 87

There is, to be sure, something sad, even 80 years later, about Germany’s situation. And yet, while it took 250 years to get out from under the catastrophe of the Thirty Years War, in the course of the process German thought established itself as the most powerful mode of critical inquiry—Romanticism, Kant, Hegel to Marx, Nietzsche and beyond—in opposition to the French Enlightenment as Die Aufklärung. It may be that, once again, in the abjectness of Germany’s post-war malaise, it will be in its thought and philosophy that Germany’s challenge will be offered. I for one, wish that it would be so, and hope too that Germany attains once again its rightful position in Europe. I believe Putin hopes for it too and that this time round perhaps Russia and Germany could represent the possibilities of a strong Ost-Europa. America must be evicted from Europe and the undermining of its culture through immigration, wokism and neoliberalism must be reversed. Dangerous talk I know, but what else is to be done? Let Kant tell us:
Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.
Posted by: Patroklos | Feb 28 2024 18:56 utc | 36
Excellent post-thanks.
I have one quibble-I think Goethe, a towering European thinker , was more French Enlightenment than the other German thinkers you noted.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 29 2024 12:22 utc | 89

Helmuth von Moltke | Feb 29 2024 7:30 utc | 84
*** Germans see no reason to live. Life (as a nation) is futile to them ***
Interesting in the case of Germany because it is the consequence of a long running, externally imposed, deliberately devised brainwash and censorship.
The same psychological warfare subsequently inflicted against the public in other Western countries — not by outside enemies, but by their “own” political establishment.
Onwards to the WEF and synthetic wokist identity!

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 29 2024 13:14 utc | 91

Posted by: La Bastille | Feb 28 2024 21:48 utc
Thanks. Interesting thought. You saying Germany for a short period in history didn’t feel the pain of growth limiting factor energy and became confident first time. This is actually what the Germans from the east did bring in reunification. A trustful relationship with Russia. Without this germany now falls back to their default behave or feeling guilty and beeing not enough. Thanks again. This is enlightening.

Posted by: rico rose | Feb 29 2024 13:46 utc | 93

@ Helmuth von Moltke | Feb 29 2024 7:30 utc | 84
thanks! i find the idea of a country living without a myth of itself or the nation quite relevant in explaining why germany continues to flounder.. i don’t know how it is going to get one either… thinking it is doing the right thing following usa ideology continues to be a recipe for disaster and perhaps germany will have to experience this in order to look deeper into what is at work here.. i certainly hope they do this sooner then later..

Posted by: james | Feb 29 2024 15:29 utc | 95

the SM-2 Block IIIA missiles utilized by vessels such as Hessen and sister ships are out of production, as revealed in a recent response to a member of parliament by the German Ministry of Defence (BMVg).
The defense policy spokesperson for the Christian Social Union faction in the Bundestag, Florian Hahn, said, “We have now only learned on inquiry that part of the ammunition of the frigate ‘Hessen’ can no longer be procured because there is no longer the corresponding industrial capacity.”
Hahn warned that if the stocks of ammunition were depleted, the navy would be unable to replenish them, ultimately resulting in the withdrawal of the frigate. Additionally, he also accused the traffic light coalition government (so-called because of the colors of the parties in it: Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Free Democratic Party, and Alliance 90/The Greens) of concealing this vital information from the opposition for months.
Hahn further noted that this lack of transparency led to a situation where parliament approved deployment without being informed of the apparent ammunition shortage affecting the 124-class frigates.
Alex Luck, Naval defense expert, pointed out, “If the revelations are accurate, it implies all Sachsen-class frigates will have to undergo modernization of their combat management system and possibly also hardware upgrades in order to use the newer SM-2 Block IIIC now in low rate initial production. Details on the exact technical issues remain obscure.”
“>https://www.eurasiantimes.com/hall-of-shame-german-navy-attempts-to-shoot-down/

Posted by: Apollyon | Feb 29 2024 17:09 utc | 97

Embarrassment? O’RLY!
Like krauts could ever outdo Brittons, even in embarrassment.
BBC breaking news: https://imgur.com/a/jWNFWZr

Posted by: Arioch | Feb 29 2024 18:33 utc | 99