Thanks to whipping up anti-Russian hysteria, the Bundeswehr is getting more funding for itself
Berlin - Kyiv, October 30 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - Following the Swedes, who unsuccessfully searched for an unknown Russian submarine, and at the same time quietly increased the budget for the coast guard, the Germans are trying, thanks to anti-Russian propaganda, to get themselves more money for the army. To whip up anti-Russian hysteria, the German military is using the Polish Minister of Defense.
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Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak visited Berlin this Wednesday. At a joint press conference with German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, he said that now “in the German Bundeswehr in recent weeks, dozens of helicopters have been recorded that do not fly, tanks that cannot be repaired, and guns that do not fire straight.” The failures of the German military were perceived by the Poles with concern, the Polish Defense Minister said. “Will you be able to fight back,” he asked the Germans, “or provide assistance in the event of Russian aggression against one of the NATO countries?”
The German Defense Minister welcomed her Polish colleagues as guests of honor at a meeting of the Bundeswehr leadership. Ursula von der Leyen spoke at the meeting about the Bundeswehr's funding gap.
She stated that there are not only problems with the material base, but also a shortage of qualified labor. “So,” says von der Leyen, “only two of the Navy’s four submarines are ready because there are no specialists to work with them.” A similar situation, according to the minister, is with the Bundeswehr air fleet.
In the end, the minister presented a plan that would solve the personnel problem in the country's troops. This plan is in the form of a law and has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. Its task is to make the Bundeswehr more attractive to highly qualified specialists.
The Bundestag must pass this law. And von der Leyen, together with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, must find ways to raise a billion euros for it.
That is why Polish Minister Siemoniak arrived in Germany to help his colleague, says the German newspaper The World. Without hesitation, Siemoniak said: “We need a strong Bundeswehr that does not spare itself to protect its allies.” The Polish Defense Minister hinted that Moscow could expand this aggression to other Eastern European states.
Russia will double its military budget in the coming years and increase it again by a third next year, the Polish minister warned. Thus, EU and NATO countries must again spend more on defense.
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