I've noticed a major uptick in Russia scaremongering recently. I think it's lining up with upcoming elections in the UK and US. Usher in the strongmen.
Here's some excerpts from warhawk Daniel Johnson:
- In the UK, only 18% of millennials would be willing to fight for their country.
In Germany,
- He {Pistorius} warned recruits in Hamburg that peace in Europe was "no longer an irrefutable certainty" and asked: "Are we seriously ready to defend this country in an emergency?" Raising the possibility of reintroducing conscription, he continued: "And who is this we? This debate has to be had."
Pictured: scum
(with an iron cross? It can't be, right? I'm not expert but I'd imagine it's a different symbol)
Then a final absurd note:
- "But a concerted campaign of rearmament, embracing not just Nato but the entire free world, would demonstrate to Putin, Xi Jinping and leaders of other authoritarian regimes that the West is ultimately invincible."
Cope and seethe
- "Now it is time to show that the West - including all who share our values - is capable of dealing not only with pirates who threaten trade routes but with dictators who threaten humanity. If we cherish the peace that has prevailed over most of mankind since 1945, we owe it to posterity to prepare for war."
Most of mankind... What a blatantly false idea. Western economic satellites have been in constant war.
- "The Anglo-American naval action in the Red Sea is a reminder that only the West cares about preserving peace and the rule of law. We are very efficient at dealing with the likes of the Houthis."
We must ensure peace!! How? Spend more money on weapons!! Rule of law! This journalist should be exiled to Palestine with immediate effect.
'very efficient at dealing with the likes of the Houthis'... and then the next suggested article is
It's an iron cross which is still the symbol of the Bundeswehr to this day.
The Iron Cross was a (Prussian?) award given for bravery. Those given during WWI will have a white and black ribbon while those given during WWII have a swastika in the middle of the cross and a white, black and red ribbon. After the war West Germany allowed it's personnel to keep wearing Iron Crosses from the world wars although they issued new ones without the swastika on it. They kept the nazi-era color scheme for the ribbon though. Being a wartime decoration, new awards has not been made since WWII but I recall reading someone talking about reviving the Iron Cross as German troops are one again being deployed to warzones. The Iron Cross became the symbol of the armed forces of the right-wing American puppet state in Germany, and the highest civil decoration of the West German state, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, has the iron Cross as a sort of aesthetic ancestor.
Meanwhile in democratic Germany, the National People's Army used the state emblem symbolising peasants, workers and intellectuals surrounded by a laurel wreath as well as the words "For the protection of worker's and peasant's power".