Palestine is not the only issue where Germany refuses to listen to reason, and which reveals the country’s inability to learn from its atrocious mistakes of the past. The steady rise of German militarism in the course of the Russia-Ukraine war has also broken one taboo after the other.
When at the beginning of the war, Germany’s then-chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that his government would use an off-budget fund of €100 billion to boost defence spending, this controversial move was considered a historic policy shift at the time.
Three years later, under the new centre-right coalition government led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany is set to permanently station German troops in a foreign country for the first time since World War II.
5000 Bundeswehr soldiers and personnel will be stationed in Lithuania in order to defend NATO’s Eastern flank against "any aggression" from Russia, Merz said on his trip to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius last week, signalling a "new era" for Germany’s armed forces.
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Nothing learned, nothing gained, Germany is at it again
Timo Al-Farooq explores Germany’s unshakable support for "Israel" amid its war on Gaza, revealing how this stance echoes past militarism and a failure to reckon with history.Timo Al-Farooq (Nothing learned, nothing gained, Germany is at it again)
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in reply to Proletarian Rage • • •Not only has Germany not learned from its #Nazi and bellicose history, it is actively falsifying it by infringing upon long-standing traditions of memory culture with the aim of downplaying the role of the #Soviet Union in defeating German fascism.
Authorities in the capital #Berlin also banned the display of the Russian and Soviet flags and symbols at the city’s three Soviet memorial sites, a move condemned by the Russian embassy as a "manifestation of historical revisionism."
Berlin’s unwavering support for "#Israel" as it freely perpetrates a genocide, and the liberal flow of German-manufactured weaponry to Ukraine, which is now being bolstered by boots on the ground in neighbouring Lithuania have one thing in common: They both show how a once remorseful post-World War II Germany (at least in outward expression) has become too big for its britches again and is increasingly endangering regional and world peace.
Nothing learned, nothing gained, #Germany is at it again.
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