“This war has nothing to do with NATO. It’s not NATO’s war,” Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. “NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory,” he added.
But not out of principle … our ships just don’t go that far without breaking down!
And for 80 years, we were quit happy with that!
— love, your neighbors
Isn’t the pride of the German Navy a sailboat called the Gorch Fock?
It’s a beautiful ship. But germany hast quite a few real good ships and submarines. Of course no where the quantity of USA.
hey gorch fock yourself
jk
Dunno but the German word for team is mannschaft, and there was a German cycling team using Giant bikes, so the were the Giant Mannschaft.
Giggity.
lol is that true? are you german?
It is a bit of a meme in germany that our military equipment suffers from a lack of maintenance. Also there were a bunch of cases of new weapons systems just failing catastrophically or having huge security issues.
My country is a bit towards the south and nobody really knows how our ships still manage to float.
We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.
The guns are fired… Every now and then. Sparingly. We still have ammunition from the 70’s in stock. Some times we even manage to misplace equipment.
Yet somehow we’re considered as the reliable ally, although a bit… wierd.
“Bedingt abwehrfähig” is the bureacratic term the government uses to explain that the German military, in particular the equipment, is broken beyond any hope of repair.
Germany sold some submarines to Greece that were leaning over on one side out the factory
BMW makes submarines?
So Canada is buying the Korean ones then?