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Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

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126 points petermcneeley | 5 comments | 06 Dec 25 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.953s | source
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euroderf ◴[07 Dec 25 07:01 UTC] No.46179784[source]▶
Leon Trotsky: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
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1. cedws ◴[07 Dec 25 18:09 UTC] No.46183670[source]▶
Send the older generations then. Why should Gen Z be forced to pay the price of the previous governments' poor decision making? Namely, in Germany, nurturing a authoritarian regime by decimating green energy initiatives in favor of Russian oil imports. Russia would never have taken such bold action if Europe responded strongly no later than 2014.
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2. thomassmith65 ◴[07 Dec 25 20:01 UTC] No.46184614[source]▶
That point of view was popular in the Interwar period (the 1932 film 'Broken Lullaby' is a perfect example).

It's an admirable attitude, but its popularity contributed to the outbreak of WWII.

3. egorfine ◴[08 Dec 25 12:34 UTC] No.46191519[source]▶
> Send the older generations then. Why should Gen Z be forced to pay the price

Yeah this is perfectly rational and logical. Hard to argue.

Problem is, the other side (russia) will not be sending just the older generation.

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4. IAmBroom ◴[09 Dec 25 20:07 UTC] No.46209934[source]▶
OT1H, yes, Dad's Army won't be the most effective troops Germany has ever fielded.

OTOH, pretty soon Russia won't have anything except the older gen to send (and oligarch's sons - haha, just kidding; they'll send women and children first!).

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5. egorfine ◴[09 Dec 25 20:09 UTC] No.46209962{3}[source]▶
> soon Russia won't have anything

I was confident about that in 2022. I was confident about that in 2023. I was confident about that in 2024. I was confident about that in 2025.

I'm not sure about that anymore.