• MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    You know the US is not the “entire western world” right?! I think venezuela would be against it for example.

  • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    104·
    1 hour ago

    “the entire western world”

    A bunch of crazy politicians want that. The majority of people in both sides wants peace and would like their money to be spend in useful things and not giant armies.

    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      61·
      42 minutes ago

      The russian population is heavily on board with their genocide. Polish are always on board to kick russias ass, most of france, germany, skandinavia, spain and portugal and italy are too. Britain is basicly united on this as one could see in their last parliament seating where even nigle farage was all in. Turkey also stands with ukraine, island is just minding its own buisness and ireland i honestly have no idea what is going on there. BeNeLux is also on board but have their own problems intern, austria is too buissy sniffing essential oils to care, baltics mostly also against russia even serbia though they play both sides. Hungarian and slovakian leaders are the only once deepthroating russian cock

      • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        26 minutes ago

        The russian population is heavily on board with their genocide. Polish are always on board to kick russias ass, most of france, germany, skandinavia, spain and portugal and italy are too.

        That’s not true at all, that’s what media makes you believe. You ear macron say something and you believe all french people are down to it. The majority of people don’t want any war, ask your peers irl.

      • Crazazy [hey hi! :D]@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        29 minutes ago

        Baltics -> Balkan. Baltics is Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. They are also preparing for the worst though it’s just that Serbia isn’t part of it

        • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 minutes ago

          To clarify, it’s the first I’m hearing about the Germans becoming some sort of Deus ex machina against Russia

          I do indeed talk a lot about the goings on with my peers

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    55 minutes ago

    If Germany had started with, and stuck to, attacking Russia, I doubt it’d have been a world war. I don’t remember who all were Russia’s allies at the start, but IIRC only the French were particularly fond of Russia. There weren’t a lot of the usual royal contract-through-marriage, were there? Did many nobles have Russian cousins?

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    Yeah, we know, irony is dead. But if the world made sense then the Orange Idiot wouldn’t be in charge.

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1113·
    7 hours ago

    This would be much more concerning if they hadn’t so thoroughly stamped out fascism. What’s the alternative for Germany?

    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      37 minutes ago

      AfD is a nazi party. With tied to Blood and Honor, Proud Boys, constantly yelling nazi quotes, nazi saluting in private and small meetings, copying their rethoric and imagin aso

    • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      1 hour ago

      The alternative is to not build a giant army and use the money in something more useful that will benefit germans and humanity

      • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        2 hours ago

        Fascism was never stamped out. Wall street supported it heavily and now they fully control the us political and military machine. We came full circle. The nazi’s didnt loose the war their ideology infected those with control today. Central banks funded the third reich and those same financial institutions are still empowered and playing a part today. War and genocide / eugenics is a part of their business model.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      I think the widespread political “unwavering support” for a nation committing Genocide, which is justified by the ethnicity of the people of that nation, kinda shows that some part of Fascism (the whole “people’s race is what matters the most and some races are better than others”) hasn’t at all been stamped out.

      Then there’s AfD which is just taking the “if it’s good to support them because of their race, then it’s good to support us” step closer to Fascism.

      Germany is far closer to a certain philosophy anchored on classifying one’s fellow human being as worthy or unworthy depending on race than one would like to believe (certainly, I liked to believe before the political reaction there to whole Gaza thing made it too obvious to deny) - the symbols were made illegal whilst the spirit lives.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      4 hours ago

      I can’t tell if that’s a lucky coincidence or a reference, but the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are the biggest voices in support of fascism in Germany, and they just won 20% of the seats in parliament. Luckily, even the CXU won’t form a coalition with them yet, so they will hopefully not have much impact on things.

      Ironically, the AfD doesn’t want to militarize against Russia (but don’t be too reassured, they do want to reinstate mandatory conscription and militarize generally, just not against daddy Putin)

    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      1 hour ago

      Germany was never fully denazified. There’s a reason the New Left in Germany was so militant. Kiesinger was in the Nazi Party!

      • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        39 minutes ago

        Yeah the Schreibtischnazis and industrial-nazis never got punished. And not to speak of east germany who employed SS and Gestapo members in their StaSi

  • Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    8 hours ago

    Poland has been pouring everything into their military, they are VERY ready for this to all go sideways. I can’t blame them.