Originally posted by Stratrf_Rus
Good ignore me ignoramous now begone. Sie Werden nicht beleidegend Deutschland.
As a sidenote: With 3 spelling and one grammar error, wrong sentence structure and syntax in a five-word sentence, I hardly believe the member Stratrf_Rus speaks german as a first language at all. Just sayin` ...
Anyway:
Originally posted by Stratrf_Rus
Originally posted by paraphi
Why do you believe Germany should go nuclear?
Regards
Mainly its more practical in today's world that a strong Germany allied with the anglican world guard against Russia and the Middle East if not China and etc.
Its not exactly "practical" for Germany to invest huge sums to become a nuclear member of a "world guard" that hasnt done too much good apart from keeping the Soviets at bay, hmm?
Especially since none of the three "threats" you mention are military threats against Germany.
That and I'm German and tired of that degrading society.
Hmm, never knew some nukes could change the dynamics of a civilian society. Thats great, finally we found a second purpose for those hangar queens!
Originally posted by Stratrf_Rus
I believe Germany should go Nuclear. If so, what systems would be viable for ICBMs, Bombers, SLBMs, and the BMD in the Russian fashion (nuclear warheads on long ranged SAMs).
We already have all the delivery methods we could ever use or need: they are called aircraft.
Originally posted by Stratrf_Rus
As for affordation? $10 billion a year should cover build-up and maintanence and I hate to say it but if there weren't so many turks in the country unemployment would not be so high.
Funny, and I always thought our world-record taxation and mismanaged integration of East Germany were the main reasons. But now that you said it, it MUST be have been the Turks forcing german companies to outsource manwork to cheaper nations!
And finally how can Germany NOT afford a Nuclear weapons program when Russia has approximately 1/10th the economy of Germany?
By deliberately opting AGAINST wasting money on any domestic WMD programs and -stockpiles? There“s no way to say that we may never need nukes... but SHOULD there ever be a situation where they may be necessary, we can have them in due time... and we dont need them ONE MINUTE earlier. Until then, NATO article 5 is the best nuclear weapon AND missile defense one could think of.
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Originally posted by stumason
Germany already has a large standing Army, with some good kit. Granted, it is made up of National Servicemen, but they certainly don't need to "re-arm" as they already are.
If by "national servicemen" you mean the conscripts, that is outdated info. only ~23% of the Bundeswehr are draftees nowadays, and the number has been declining for years.
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But still, regardless of the fact that nuclear weapon weapons are completely unnecessary for Germany, there is nothing that Germany militarily has done and that other European nations did not do over the course of recent history; so there is also no special reason why Germany should not be ALLOWED to have nukes. Any other opinion basically is "Victor politics".

