Ukraine.

US's Big Beautiful Bill means the they can't supply stuff to the Ukraine anymore. Meanwhile Russia keeps the Ukraine regularly supplied with Big Beautiful Bombs.



 
Uki Nazis.

They haven't gone away, you know....

Polish president approves memorial day for victims of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators​

Kiev has praised the perpetrators behind the WWII ethnic cleansing as national heroes and freedom fighters
Polish president approves memorial day for victims of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators

Demonstrators march to commemorate the victims of the 1943 Volyn massacre, Krakow, Poland, July 11, 2024. © Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto


Outgoing Polish President Andrzej Duda has established an official day of remembrance for the victims of the “genocide”committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II.
From 1943 to 1945, Ukrainian Nazi collaborators murdered over 100,000 ethnic Poles in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, now part of modern Ukraine. The peak of the massacres, which the Polish government has officially recognized as a genocide, occurred in mid-1943, when the residents of “about a hundred villages” were exterminated on July 11, according to the text of a bill passed by the Polish Parliament and Senate last month.
On Wednesday, Duda signed a law officially establishing July 11 as the “National Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide committed by the OUN and UPA in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic,” according to his office.
“The martyrdom of Poles for belonging to the Polish nation deserves to be remembered with an annual day designated by the Polish state to honor the victims,”the document states.

The massacres have long been a source of tension in relations between Kiev and Warsaw, despite Poland being one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters in its conflict with Moscow.
Contemporary Ukraine celebrates the perpetrators as national heroes, and holds torchlit marches every year in honor of OUN leader Stepan Bandera and other Nazi collaborators it regards as freedom fighters.
Ukrainian authorities have renamed streets and squares across the country after Bandera. The government has also faced criticism for its reluctance to allow the exhumation of victims’ remains.
READ MORE: Polish MP claims life threatened over criticism of Ukrainian Nazi collaborator
Poland’s president-elect, Karol Nawrocki, has repeatedly stated that Kiev must take responsibilityfor the massacres. Despite his favorable stance on military support for Ukraine, he has opposed Kiev’s NATO and EU membership ambitions until such “civilizational issues” are resolved
 
I think Ukraine represents a front against Russian & Chinese Communism & should probably be defended based on that reason but still more so in alliance with the Americans, not what Zelensky is doing, which is allying with the European Union, which will not be able to defend Ukraine.

Aside from that, the European Union is anti-American which is not a good thing.
 
il fasco said:
I think Ukraine represents a front against Russian & Chinese Communism & should probably be defended based on that reason but still more so in alliance with the Americans, not what Zelensky is doing, which is allying with the European Union, which will not be able to defend Ukraine.

Aside from that, the European Union is anti-American which is not a good thing.
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Yeah we dont want anybody threatening our LGBT Pride Months.
 
il fasco said:
I think Aleskandr Dugin said he preferred the mudhuts of negroes to gay bars.

I would say gay bars are at least preferable to a land filled with negroes.
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with the primacy of the US and the EU we are guaranteed gay bars and negroes. So why worry if Russia and China kick their asses?
 
LOL's.
Who's fucked???:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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Russia pounds Ukraine with largest drone attack of war

Russia has repeatedly struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the largest drone attack of the war, killing one person, injuring at least 23 and damaging buildings across the capital.
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Zitler will go down as one of the worst statesmen/leaders that ever walked the planet.
What a fucking muppet.:rolleyes:
 
Really fucked!:cool:

BlackRock drops Ukraine fund – Bloomberg​

Investors have reportedly lost interest in the massive reconstruction endowment that last year was targeting raising $15 billion
BlackRock drops Ukraine fund – Bloomberg

Marquee at the main entrance to the BlackRock headquarters building in Manhattan, New York, US, June 24, 2024. © Getty Images / Erik McGregor/LightRocket
US investment holding BlackRock stopped its search for investors to back a multi-billion dollar fund for rebuilding Ukraine earlier this year, Bloomberg has reported. Interest reportedly dropped after President Donald Trump retook the White House.
The fund was set to be unveiled at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome next week. It had been close to securing backing from firms supported by the governments of Germany, Italy, and Poland, the outlet wrote on Saturday, citing anonymous sources.
Nevertheless, BlackRock reportedly decided to shelve the talks early this year “due to a lack of interest amid increased uncertainty over Ukraine’s future,” after the US changed its stance towards Kiev under the current administration.
Trump has long promised to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict and has sought avenues to reach a peace deal. He has also pushed European NATO allies to take over the burden of militarily supporting Ukraine. Earlier this week, Washington reportedly froze critical arms deliveries to Kiev to focus on replenishing its own stockpiles, although the US president has insisted some military aid still continues.

The Trump administration “was a notable absence from the fund’s backers in December,” Bloomberg added.
In March of last year, BlackRock vice chairman Philipp Hildebrand indicated that the Ukraine Development Fund was on track to secure at least $2.5 billion from private investors, countries and other grant lenders. A consortium of such investors could finance at least $15 billion towards reconstruction work in Ukraine, he said.
However, a BlackRock spokesperson indicated that the firm is no longer engaged in “any active mandate” with Kiev, having finished its pro-bono consulting work with the Ukraine Development Fund last year, Bloomberg wrote.

The investment firm, which controls roughly $11.6 trillion in assets, owns substantial shares in military-industrial giants such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman, among many others. Armaments produced by these firms, which are supplied to Kiev by its Western backers, have seen extensive use in the conflict.
Moscow has repeatedly condemned foreign arms supplies to Kiev, arguing that they make pro-Ukrainian Western nations party to the conflict, which Russia views as a NATO proxy war. The Kremlin has stated that the recent freeze in US military aid to Kiev will accelerate settlement of the conflict.

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BlackRock drops Ukraine fund – Bloomberg

Investors have reportedly lost interest in the massive reconstruction endowment that last year was targeting raising $15 billion
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LOL.

Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte​

The country produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the secretary-general has said
Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. © Omar Havana / Getty Images


Russia’s military production is dwarfing that of NATO, Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned, urging Western nations to ramp up defense spending.

In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Rutte sounded the alarm about Russia’s military capabilities, noting that the country is “reconstituting itself at a pace and a speed which is unparalleled in recent history.”
He said Moscow is “producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a year.”
Rutte pointed to a proposal to boost NATO defense spending to 5% of GDP – a figure US President Donald Trump has been insistent on – with 3.5% going to the core military budgets and another 1.5% earmarked for areas such as cyber defenses and preparing civilian infrastructure. “Yes, this is an enormous amount of spending. But if we don’t, we’ll have to learn Russian,” the NATO chief said.
Asked whether the increased defense spending risks fueling an arms race with Russia, Rutte said: “We have to make sure that the deterrence is there,” noting Russia’s heavy investment in tanks, artillery, air defense, and ammunition.

“What I’m particularly worried about is the defense industrial output… because we simply lack the defense industrial base to produce the weapons we need to make sure that we can deter the Russians or the North Koreans or whoever.”
Rutte’s comments come amid speculation in Western media and among some officials that Moscow will eventually attack NATO countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the accusation as “nonsense,” saying Moscow has no interest in invading the US-led bloc.
READ MORE: NATO talks becoming toxic – Kiev
As the Ukraine conflict rages on, Russia has significantly ramped up defense spending. Last year, Putin stated that Russia’s defense industry increased its output of ammunition fourteenfold, drones fourfold, and armored vehicles by 3.5 times since the start of the hostilities. He also said Russia outproduces all NATO countries combined tenfold in missile manufacturing.
In late June, Putin revealed that Russia is spending 13.5 trillion rubles ($151 billion) on defense – around 6.3% of GDP. He acknowledged that the figure is high and has fueled inflation, while noting that the US has spent even more during past conflicts – 14% of GDP during the Korean War and 10% during the Vietnam War.

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Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte

Russia produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the NATO secretary-general has said
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His family did not want him to return after being wounded and losing an eye.
Imagine getting killed fighting for a fictitious country that will not exist by the end of the year
 
Wolf said:
LOL.

Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte​

The country produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the secretary-general has said
Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. © Omar Havana / Getty Images


Russia’s military production is dwarfing that of NATO, Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned, urging Western nations to ramp up defense spending.

In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Rutte sounded the alarm about Russia’s military capabilities, noting that the country is “reconstituting itself at a pace and a speed which is unparalleled in recent history.”
He said Moscow is “producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a year.”
Rutte pointed to a proposal to boost NATO defense spending to 5% of GDP – a figure US President Donald Trump has been insistent on – with 3.5% going to the core military budgets and another 1.5% earmarked for areas such as cyber defenses and preparing civilian infrastructure. “Yes, this is an enormous amount of spending. But if we don’t, we’ll have to learn Russian,” the NATO chief said.
Asked whether the increased defense spending risks fueling an arms race with Russia, Rutte said: “We have to make sure that the deterrence is there,” noting Russia’s heavy investment in tanks, artillery, air defense, and ammunition.

“What I’m particularly worried about is the defense industrial output… because we simply lack the defense industrial base to produce the weapons we need to make sure that we can deter the Russians or the North Koreans or whoever.”
Rutte’s comments come amid speculation in Western media and among some officials that Moscow will eventually attack NATO countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the accusation as “nonsense,” saying Moscow has no interest in invading the US-led bloc.
READ MORE: NATO talks becoming toxic – Kiev
As the Ukraine conflict rages on, Russia has significantly ramped up defense spending. Last year, Putin stated that Russia’s defense industry increased its output of ammunition fourteenfold, drones fourfold, and armored vehicles by 3.5 times since the start of the hostilities. He also said Russia outproduces all NATO countries combined tenfold in missile manufacturing.
In late June, Putin revealed that Russia is spending 13.5 trillion rubles ($151 billion) on defense – around 6.3% of GDP. He acknowledged that the figure is high and has fueled inflation, while noting that the US has spent even more during past conflicts – 14% of GDP during the Korean War and 10% during the Vietnam War.

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Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte

Russia produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the NATO secretary-general has said
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Here we have a further lunge towards war, and one that we cannot win.

Our efforts at containing the bear have been futile, and when it was open to a peace settlement it got punched on the nose, so it has built an arms industry that we simply cannot match and when Ukraine is taken, where will it next turn its attention? It will have become unstoppable, certainly by European armies and America is less than likely to give a toss.

We have created a monster by trying to be clever, and oh boy has it ever backfired!
 
Going south.

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"The cost of coal transshipment is falling under the pressure of poor market conditions. Port warehouses are overstocked, and stevedores are forced to work almost at the edge of profitability: according to various estimates, there are almost 50 million tons of coal in storage areas - about 26% of all exports for 2024. The situation will not change by the end of the year, given the continuing low prices for coal, as well as logistical constraints, analysts believe."


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Russian Car Market Expected to Contract by 24% This Year - The Moscow Times

The Russian car market is expected to contract significantly this year, reflecting a sharp decline in consumer demand and the broader impact of a slumping economy. In a press release on Thursday, the Association of European Businesses revised its forecast for the Russian car market in 2025...
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"The Russian car market is expected to contract significantly this year, reflecting a sharp decline in consumer demand and the broader impact of a slumping economy.

In a press release on Thursday, the Association of European Businesses revised its forecast for the Russian car market in 2025, projecting sales to decrease by 24% to 1.25 million units sold."
 
It looks now that the city of Pokrovsk will be surrounded and 20000 ukes eliminated. This is going to be the last battle as the Ukrainian defense depends on holding it
 
Wolf said:
ROTFL!
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Four other Irish men have also died fighting in Ukraine since the war broke out in February 2022.

Last month, Alex Rhyzuk (20) from Rathmines, Co Dublin, went missing and is presumed dead.

Graham Dale from Raheny and Finbar Cafferkey from Acaill, Co Mayo, both died while battling Russian forces in Ukraine.

Rory Mason, 23, also died fighting with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The native of Dunboyne, Co Meath, was fighting in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border when he died.
 
nobody knows I'm a dog said:
He had lost an eye in battle. How was he passed fit to return to combat? Would he not be shooting slightly to the left or right?
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The Ukes are sending old men and disabled lads into the front lines in desperation.

There was a clip of a Down Syndrome lad in a trench with his comrades taking the piss out of him.
 
Poor Zitler......almost completely forgotten about and irrelevant these days....... :ROFLMAO:

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Eight dead as Russia strikes Ukraine, Pope may host talks

Ukraine has said that eight civilians were killed in Russian drone and bombing attacks in the war-scarred Donetsk region in the east of the country.
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Mind you, he's meeting the pope, kind of a pedo's convention thingy.....
 
Typical of Zitler and his army of online bootlickers, deny everything and ignore factual history.

Zelensky claimed he ‘never heard of’ Ukrainian Nazi collaborators’ crimes – Polish president​

Ukrainians are kept in the dark about atrocities like the Volyn massacre, Andrzej Duda has said
Zelensky claimed he ‘never heard of’ Ukrainian Nazi collaborators’ crimes – Polish president

FILE PHOTO: Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky meet in Kiev, Ukraine, on June 27, 2025. © Global Look Press / Ukrainian Presidential Office

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky claimed he had no idea about the atrocities committed by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during World War II until confronted about the issue by Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latter has told the media outlet RMF24.
According to the president, Zelensky’s claim underscores that Ukrainians are kept in the dark about their nation’s troubled past. “He said to me: ‘Andrzej, I've never heard of the murders, the killing of Poles in western Ukraine, in Volhynia. They didn't teach us about it in school’,” Duda said, recounting one of his meetings with the Ukrainian leader.
The president was referring to the infamous Volyn massacre, which has long been a flashpoint in bilateral relations between the two countries. Militants from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) slaughtered up to 100,000 Poles between 1943 and 1945 in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which were later incorporated into Ukraine. Both the UPA and the OUN collaborated with Nazi Germany during WWII.
Many historic ultranationalist leaders, including OUN leader Stepan Bandera, a notorious Nazi collaborator, are widely revered by Ukrainians today. According to Duda, they are ignorant about the crimes of the past. The widespread belief that they are aware of their own “difficult history” is wrong, according to the Polish president.

It is not the first time Duda has expressed his concerns about Ukraine’s approach to its past. In September 2024, he told Polsat News that “Ukrainians have many problems with their history,” including “the Volyn massacre … service in SS units, collaboration with the authorities of the Third Reich, and participation in the Holocaust.”
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry released a statement on Thursday, saying that historical events should be studied and discussed “without politicization.”
“On the eve of the day when the Republic of Poland commemorates the victims of the Volyn tragedy, Ukraine shares the pain and grief of the Polish people. At the same time, we do not forget about the numerous Ukrainians who became innocent victims of interethnic violence, political repression and deportation on the territory of Poland,” the statement continued.
Warsaw has been one of Kiev’s strongest supporters since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022. Poland also provided a key logistics hub which was used to transport between 80-90% of NATO-supplied military equipment and ammunition to Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities continue to glorify Nazi collaborators despite concerns expressed by Kiev’s Western backers. In February, the city of Rovno celebrated the 120th birthday of Nazi collaborator and prominent anti-Semitic propagandist Ulas Samchuk, who called for the mass killing of Jews and Poles during WWII.
Less than a month later, Ukrainian nationalists commemorated the 75th anniversary of the death of UPA leader Roman Shukhevich with a torchlit march, and unveiled a museum dedicated to him. Shukhevich is considered by many historians to have been one of the architects and commanders responsible for the massacre of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
 
Hungarians know the score.......(y)


EU ‘has no money except for war’ – Hungarian official​

Brussels is reportedly considering sending an additional €100 billion to Ukraine
EU ‘has no money except for war’ – Hungarian official

Hungarian governmental adviser Balazs Orban, Paris, France, November 10, 2023. © Vincent Isore / Global Look Press


The EU is placing Ukraine’s military needs above the priorities of the bloc’s member states, Hungarian government adviser Balazs Orban has said. He accused EU leaders of always finding money for “war” but not other causes.
Leaders of EU nations are considering the creation of a new €100 billion ($117 billion) fund under the bloc’s upcoming seven-year budget to cover expenses for the Ukrainian government, Bloomberg reported this week, citing people familiar with the discussions. Budapest, however, has been a vocal critic of the bloc’s approach to the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its onset.
”Europe has run out of money – except when it comes to war. There is always 100 billion euros for that,” Orban wrote on Wednesday on social media. He warned that such an allocation of funds would likely lead to further proposals to spend EU taxpayers’ money on Ukraine.
Orban pointed to Kiev’s estimate that it would require $1 trillion over 14 years for reconstruction and modernization, a figure shared by Prime Minister Denis Shmigal during a donors conference in Rome this week.

”While Europe cannot climb out of its own economic, social and security crisis, Brussels would continue to finance the war – weapons instead of peace, new debt instead of a competitive Europe,” Orban said.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that US investment firm BlackRock had abandoned efforts to attract private investors for a Ukraine reconstruction program. The fund was expected to be launched at the Rome conference, but potential participants reportedly expressed “a lack of interest amid increased uncertainty” over the country’s future.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky said at the event that “only friends are invited” to help rebuild the country. He reiterated his call to confiscate Russian state assets frozen by Western nations and transfer them to Kiev.
Moscow has warned that such actions would constitute international theft. EU members have voiced concern that expropriating Russian assets could significantly erode global confidence in their financial systems. As an alternative, Ukraine’s backers have been imposing a “windfall tax” on profits from the immobilized Russian funds and channeling the money to Kiev – an approach Moscow has described as another form of criminality.
Hungary has accused the EU leadership of inflicting major economic harm on member states through sanctions on Russia, and of wasting resources on a war effort that it argues cannot deliver a military victory over Moscow.
 
Zitler will have to recognise, admit and apologise for his country's Nazi past and indeed for his recent ovations to Waffen SS Nazis while he was scabbing in Canada.
No way the shithole can become part of the EU until this, the corruption and all the other shit going on in that kip is sorted.

Poland insists Ukraine recognize WW2 genocide​

The “wound” in relations between Warsaw and Kiev will not heal until “cleansed,” Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said
Poland insists Ukraine recognize WW2 genocide

FILE PHOTO: Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. © Global Look Press / Mateusz Bialczyk

Kiev must officially recognize the crimes committed by Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and Nazi collaborators against Poles during the Second World War as genocide, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said. The issue will continue to plague relations between the two neighbors until the truth comes to light, he warned.
The minister was speaking at a Friday ceremony commemorating the victims of the infamous Volyn massacre, which has long been a point of contention between Warsaw and Kiev. Militants from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) slaughtered up to 100,000 Poles between 1943 and 1945 in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which were later incorporated into Ukraine. Both organizations actively collaborated with Nazi Germany.
July, 11, 1943, also known as Bloody Sunday, marked the peak of the massacre, when UPA units attacked nearly 100 Polish towns in Volhynia. “I want to build the future on the truth that must be shown, on respecting the past,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said during the ceremony, adding that Kiev officially admitting to the genocide should be an integral part of the process.

“This wound will not heal until it is cleansed,” the minister stated. Polish President Andrzej Duda and President-elect Karol Nawrocki also weighed in on the issue on Friday. “Mature” relations between nations can only be built on truth, Duda wrote on X, adding that “our defenseless compatriots died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists… They were murdered because they were Poles.”
On Thursday, Duda told the media outlet RMF24 that Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky claimed he had never even heard about the Volyn massacre before, since he was not taught about it at school.

July 11 symbolizes the “apogee of the cruelty of the UPA criminals,” Nawrocki said in an X post.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry issued a statement ahead of the commemoration day, stating that Kiev “shares the pain and grief of the Polish people” but maintained that “we do not forget about the numerous Ukrainians who became innocent victims of interethnic violence, political repression and deportation on the territory of Poland.”
Ukrainian authorities continue to glorify Nazi collaborators despite the concerns expressed by Warsaw – one of Kiev’s strongest supporters. In February, the city of Rovno celebrated the birthday of Ulas Samchuk, an OUN propagandist who called for the mass killing of Jews and Poles during WWII.
Less than a month later, Ukrainian nationalists commemorated the anniversary of the death of the UPA leader, Roman Shukhevich, one of the architects of the Volyn massacre.
 
Could the war in Ukraine perhaps unite Europeans in electing parties like those of Justin Barrett?
 
ghibelline said:
Could the war in Ukraine perhaps unite Europeans in electing parties like those of Justin Barrett?
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I think its a given if they understand what they are NOT voting for. Otherwise they are future meat cubes. Indeed we all are if Putin can manage it.

Only Orban seems to think he can get a Greater Hungary without being swalloweed by Russia. Because he thinks NATO will protect him no matter what.
 
From the 4 oblasts because they realize that they could lose three more shortly
 
willows68 said:
I'm fed up to to here with Ukes. Gimmegrabs grifting chancers living off my tax raid.
No insurance/nct/tax disk.
But a high end friggin' Merc/ Beemer what have you.
Yea they white but as grifty as their Romani equivalents.
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Hard to blame them = = When the Americans told them to go to Ireland to milk the Irish like cash cows ! ! !
 
They haven't gone away you know.......

German president calls for universal military conscription​

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has argued that volunteer enlistment may not be sufficient to meet the country’s military demands
German president calls for universal military conscription

File photo: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. © Picture alliance / Getty Images


German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has urged a nationwide debate about reinstating military conscription, stressing that Berlin needs to strengthen its armed forces amid what he described as escalating security threats in Europe.
Compulsory military service was suspended in Germany in 2011. Although inactive, the legal framework for a draft remains intact and can be reactivated by a simple parliamentary majority. A full-scale return, including women, however, would require changes to the constitution.
Speaking to ZDF on Sunday, Steinmeier said Germany must prepare for the possibility that voluntary enlistment will fall short of staffing requirements for the army.
“I am an advocate of conscription because I believe that with the changing security situation in Europe, with the fact that a war is taking place, and with the conclusions we have drawn from it to better protect ourselves, the personnel equipment of the Bundeswehr also needs to be adapted,” he said.

He expressed support for Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ proposal to expand troop numbers and create a backup draft system. The plan aims for around 5,000 volunteer recruits annually, rising to 30,000 by 2029.
Legislation which is being prepared for cabinet review in August with possible enactment by early 2026 includes provisions to automatically reintroduce conscription if volunteer numbers fall short.
“We need this debate now, preferably with a positive outcome, so that if there are not enough volunteers, we will probably return to a different form of conscription than the one we have already abolished,” Steinmeier said.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Germany has been working to strengthen its military, citing what it sees as a security threat from Russia.
Moscow has rejected claims that it plans to attack NATO nations, dismissing them as “nonsense” and accusing Western leaders of intentionally alarming their citizens to justify increased defense budgets.
 
Wolf said:
They haven't gone away you know.......

German president calls for universal military conscription​

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has argued that volunteer enlistment may not be sufficient to meet the country’s military demands
German president calls for universal military conscription

File photo: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. © Picture alliance / Getty Images


German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has urged a nationwide debate about reinstating military conscription, stressing that Berlin needs to strengthen its armed forces amid what he described as escalating security threats in Europe.
Compulsory military service was suspended in Germany in 2011. Although inactive, the legal framework for a draft remains intact and can be reactivated by a simple parliamentary majority. A full-scale return, including women, however, would require changes to the constitution.
Speaking to ZDF on Sunday, Steinmeier said Germany must prepare for the possibility that voluntary enlistment will fall short of staffing requirements for the army.
“I am an advocate of conscription because I believe that with the changing security situation in Europe, with the fact that a war is taking place, and with the conclusions we have drawn from it to better protect ourselves, the personnel equipment of the Bundeswehr also needs to be adapted,” he said.

He expressed support for Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ proposal to expand troop numbers and create a backup draft system. The plan aims for around 5,000 volunteer recruits annually, rising to 30,000 by 2029.
Legislation which is being prepared for cabinet review in August with possible enactment by early 2026 includes provisions to automatically reintroduce conscription if volunteer numbers fall short.
“We need this debate now, preferably with a positive outcome, so that if there are not enough volunteers, we will probably return to a different form of conscription than the one we have already abolished,” Steinmeier said.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Germany has been working to strengthen its military, citing what it sees as a security threat from Russia.
Moscow has rejected claims that it plans to attack NATO nations, dismissing them as “nonsense” and accusing Western leaders of intentionally alarming their citizens to justify increased defense budgets.
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Heil Germany's Next Hitler = = Maybe they have Cloned the Old Hitler ? !
 
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