u/ahornsirup — ahornsirup

Is that supposed to be English?

Defending ourselves and our allies may sadly be a necessity in the not too distant future. Thank Putin.

It's really not much of a flex (all you need is a strong transmitter), and it's almost certainly not intended as one. They're doing it because the Israeli and American military use GPS for navigation and targeting.

Iran's standing forces are kind of irrelevant without a way to get them to Israel.

The settlers are enabled by the Israeli government's use military force against whoever already lives on the land they want to "settle." The money is the smallest of the issues at hand.

Nice victim-blaming, creep.

That was before Netanyahu brought the far right into power, and before the US gave said far right a blank cheque for ethnic cleansing (and that's the charitable way of phrasing that).

Sadly the current Israeli government isn't likely to leave willingly. Certainly not while they have the full backing of the US.

At least until the next French election. Not exactly a long-term guarantee. Germany needs its own deterrent.

It's better to be told that you can't enter by the embassy than to be detained at the border.

Even during the World Wars the defence industry wasn't wholly nationalised.

37% of Rheinmetall's shares are owned by NA investors, none individually control more than 6%. And no, Rheinmetall wasn't founded by Nazis. It predates the Nazis by decades, the company was founded in the same year Hitler was born in. And even if it was, why would that matter *today*? The company is not owned by the people who founded it. It's not even owned by their descendants (who still would not be the same people).

They are also NOT selling to both sides. I'm not even disputing that they wouldn't, they might well want to, but they literally can't. They're not allowed to and that is enforced.

So what's your alternative? Do nothing as Russia invades country after country and hope that they'll stop before it's our turn?