The most revealing part of all of this is exact wording used. Watch how they frame the country based on how useful it is for them to show an all-of-a-sudden bout of "patriotic" utterances ("My country ...")
This exact phrasing is usually not used unless it fits their narrative.
The ur-typical position of a modern liberal progressive:
Anti-nuclear power but pro-nuclear weapons. Someone else's weapons, at someone else's cost.
"Someone else" could be said to be the core feature of such a person.
Tangent: Algeria had a weak military, has internal potential problems, and borders several regions with problems or low-key warfare. And it is not out of the question to suspect Algeria is preparing for a potential future where European nations fed up with the invading peoples try to shovel said people back to their points of departure.
Better have a military making it possible to say "No!" instead of being forced to accept millions of undesriables from foreign nations.
Of course you're correct on all these aspects, plus spending on whatever item doesn't equate usefulness.
That said, none of these 'nuances' betrouble Ms. Brantner and her ilk.
I'm also bet that she's saying this nonsense because she knows that there are no circumstances under which Germany (or Japan, dor that matter) will be permitted nukes, i.e., the one and only measure of sovereignty in the post-1945 era.
The most revealing part of all of this is exact wording used. Watch how they frame the country based on how useful it is for them to show an all-of-a-sudden bout of "patriotic" utterances ("My country ...")
This exact phrasing is usually not used unless it fits their narrative.
What happened to no borders, no nations?
Must be a special case of selective Alzheimer's.
That, or ulterior motives these people know better not to utter.
The ur-typical position of a modern liberal progressive:
Anti-nuclear power but pro-nuclear weapons. Someone else's weapons, at someone else's cost.
"Someone else" could be said to be the core feature of such a person.
Tangent: Algeria had a weak military, has internal potential problems, and borders several regions with problems or low-key warfare. And it is not out of the question to suspect Algeria is preparing for a potential future where European nations fed up with the invading peoples try to shovel said people back to their points of departure.
Better have a military making it possible to say "No!" instead of being forced to accept millions of undesriables from foreign nations.
Of course you're correct on all these aspects, plus spending on whatever item doesn't equate usefulness.
That said, none of these 'nuances' betrouble Ms. Brantner and her ilk.
I'm also bet that she's saying this nonsense because she knows that there are no circumstances under which Germany (or Japan, dor that matter) will be permitted nukes, i.e., the one and only measure of sovereignty in the post-1945 era.
Grün ist das neue Braun ( green is the new brown.}
If one mixes green, red and black one gets brown...
The green party is like the leaves on a tree: it started out green, then changed to red, and ends up being brown.
The only way to avoid the ' grosse kladderadatsch ' is the AFD , as blue never turns into brown ....