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NightOwl to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

German army sets up first overseas bases since Second World War

www.telegraph.co.uk

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German army sets up first overseas bases since Second World War

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NightOwl to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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As soldiers arrive in Lithuania, Berlin says the permanent presence of 5,000 troops will send a ‘clear signal of solidarity’
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  • JackDark@lemmy.world
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    Lithuania

    Saved you a click

    • konki@lemmy.one
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      Can Lithuania be considered overseas to Germany though?

      • JackDark@lemmy.world
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        You can technically get from one to the other via the Baltic Sea.

        • RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          You can technically get from the US to Canada via the Atlantic, so the logic checks out.

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            Germany and Lithuania don’t share a land border, though…

            • RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de
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              US and Guatemala?

            • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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              Remind me of Prussia and how that ended.

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      * nervous Polish noises *

  • dumbass@lemy.lol
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    With permission this time tho, right?

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      From the capitalist ruling class of course.

      If they wouldn’t allow it the country would just be labelled an enemy state to be overthrown by capitalists, as had been the case here.

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        I think the people of lithuania are pro-base as well…

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      * Anakin’s face intensifies *

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    Does “you can get there by train in 10h from Berlin” count as overseas? I thought that would imply, you know, a sea that you have to get over.

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    While actively funding and supporting a genocide too.

    West Germany was never denazified.
    • More Nazis in German justice department after WWII than during Third Reich: study

    Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

    • https://www.businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germany-post-world-war-ii-government-2016-10?op=1

    From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.

    Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler’s rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.

    While alot of the rest of the nazis stayed in power through NATO

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      Removed by mod

      • Woozythebear@lemmy.world
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        I dunno man, Germany just can’t help itself from committing or supporting genocide throughout their history. Are Nazi’s flying flags in Germany? No. Is Germany passing laws and carrying out foreign policy as if they were still run by Nazi’s? Most definitely yes.

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