Der Zeitgeist
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1 hour ago, Sir Lancelot said:
I’m curious why a well-trained spetsnaz team would corner themselves like that. Seems like they might still be alive if they retreated from the AO
If it even was Spetsnaz. To these volunteer units, every Russian they come across will probably be some Elite Spetsnaz Commando Supersoldier, and every time the story gets retold he will be more elite
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1 hour ago, poesel said:
I blame this on the briefing texts. These are often misleading. A common occurrence.
Mission time limit was probably 1-2 hours or so.
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8 hours ago, dan/california said:
I really wonder how this plays in Germany. Could it be good timing for Scholz? In that Ukraine will simply do whatever he wants done as a thank you for the Leopards?
So far, this "German Wagner mercs captured" story didn't play much at all in Germany. Haven't seen anything on it outside the usual Twitter discussion circles.
Legally, this could be an interesting case. With Germans fighting for ISIS being captured by Kurdish factions in Syria, usually extradition to Germany was the way to go, with the individualy being arrested at the airport and then tried for various things in German courts.
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New German public opinion survey results just came in from ZDF Politbarometer/Forschungsgruppe Wahlen.
Pretty solid 54% majority there favouring the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Breakdown among supporters of our different parties on the right of the chart. It breaks down similar to previous surveys, with support being highest among Green party voters, and lowest among right-wing AfD and left-wing Die Linke.
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5 minutes ago, cesmonkey said:
Someone else would have to lead the way, for sure, before Germany would even think of agreeing to that.
As far as I understand, there's no way Germany would be able to agree to that since we're signatory to and have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which is very clear on these points:
Countries that ratify the convention will be obliged "never under any circumstances to":
- Use cluster munitions;
- Develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, cluster munitions;
- Assist, encourage or induce anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention.
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If anyone misses the fun "what the hell is wrong with Scholz"-discussions we had, get ready for the ultimate "Estonia wants to send German-made DPICM artillery rounds to Ukraine"-Clusterfu***.
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13 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
BTW, it seems that Reddit has turned off the super annoying autoplay for embedded links. I am putting that to the test with my previous post. I am not seeing autoplay, how about you guys?
Steve
NO autoplay with Chrome on Windows 10.
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I don't want to overdo it with the "Scholzology", but this article makes some good points about German domestic politics and public opinion surrounding the Leopard decision. It should auto-translate well.
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3 minutes ago, Butschi said:
But Melnik has already demanded Germany hand over the Tornados that are going to be replaced by F-35s.
Exactly. The hustle never stops.
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1 minute ago, Huba said:
But those are technicalities, we should be preparing to be emotional about aircraft now
It already started over here. The chair of the parliamentary defense committee was asked what she thinks about sending fighter jets next, and she said she couldn't quite see this yet. Headline was "Strack-Zimmermann rules out sending fighter jets to Ukraine!!11!1".
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The German government has now officially confirmed yesterday's press reports about sending Leopard 2 to Ukraine as part of a broader coalition. Overall goal is to quickly provide equipment for 2 battalions of Leopard 2.
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2 minutes ago, panzermartin said:
Sad to see war taking such a toll on him. And this speech is... Sad.
It will get even worse. The next few months will be hell for Ukraine. Russia can't wait, they'll have to throw everything in before any of the new western stuff becomes operational.
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Former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany.
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The Netherlands will apparently send 18 Leopard 2.
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Germany will send at least one company of Leopard 2A6.
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2 minutes ago, The_MonkeyKing said:
Yeah, makes you wonder why Germany has not taken this stance. Or at least has had a historical PR failure in the matter...
Scholz actually HAS taken this stance. He spelled it out dozens of times since shortly after the beginning of the war. The problem is that nobody believed he was honest with that and/or ridiculed that stance as that of a coward.
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"The Scholz effect"
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1 minute ago, danfrodo said:
Sholz throws a wrench into this, for whatever f-ing reason, but hopefully we'll get past that ASAP.
We are past that. Thanks to the US sending M1s. Like Scholz apparently suggested last week.
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4 minutes ago, Huba said:
No no. There's this EU mechanism for financing support for UA from which countries can be reimbursed for some of the various costs they took. AFAIK PL has already filled receipts for around 2.2B Euro, though actually got back about 50M. The voices that "we are sending too much, what about our own defense" are heard a bit louder lately, I'm guess this is directed at silencing them.
Alright, fair enough, thanks!
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9 minutes ago, FancyCat said:
I mean...how many tanks has Poland prepped and given to Ukraine? Besides, money was earmarked to pay for equipment by the EU already.
I'm not sure how this works, would this need another (possibly unanimous) decision by the EU?
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Oh, FFS.
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21 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said:
Since Ukraine is party to the land mine convention, I assume this mine was deployed by Russia, which makes it very fitting that a Russian would also step on it.
Wait, are you claiming Ukraine doesn't use anti-personnel mines in the war?
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4 hours ago, Beleg85 said:
Ok, I completelly lost the track what is happening. Does our German friends here can tell more? Does Baerbock statements represent official stance or is part of some inside quarrels at the top?
Nobody knows what the official government stance is right now or if there even is an official government position. I watched the Bundespressekonferenz today and it was completely ridiculous.
3 hours ago, Kraft said:I'd pay good money just to get a hint as to why the SPD/Scholz behaves like this, at the expense of pretty much everyone except Russia.
My current theory is that it's mostly domestic intra-SPD pressures on Scholz.
Scholz himself doesn't seem to have any problem with taking the international criticism and is happy to play the official European Anti-Tank villain, as this keeps him out of trouble with the SPD electorate and also nicely shuts up Mützenich and the rest of the left wing of his party. When Germany eventually does send Leopard 2s, not even the most pacifist SPD guys will say a word because Scholz was simply forced to do so by the warmongering Americans and Poles. Everyone's happy.
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19 minutes ago, Huba said:
According to Reznikov the next Ramstein in the middle of February is to be about tanks and aircraft, sounds like reasonable timeframe for specific decisions.
This will be a big one, as it happens right at the same time with the Munich Security Conference. We might see Zelensky and other heads of government attending directly there.
Combat Mission Cold War - British Army On the Rhine
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As a German, I'm not at all bothered by seeing the UK go first here. I always found the British module one of the most interesting forces for CMSF, and developing the Bundeswehr or NVA stuff is a lot of work, of course.
Two questions, though: