At the beginning of March, Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) defence policy spokesman Florian Hahn called for the reintroduction of compulsory military service before the end of the year.

“We can’t just sit back and watch as the world around us becomes more insecure,” he told German tabloid Bild.

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    6 days ago

    The constitution is easy to change, it only needs a 2/3 majority, which has been abused to write all sorts of silly self destructive shit into it, like the “debt brake” which has been a major factor in the crumbling of Germany’s infrastructure over the past few decades.

    Why not write something sensible into it for a change?

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      6 days ago

      The constitution is easy to change, it only needs a 2/3 majority,

      Only that Putins party and the pacifist Linke have over a third of the votes. The former has a lot of open facists in its ranks and the later hates the idea of killing Nazis, because that is violent.

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        pacifist Linke

        I wouldn’t call rolling over and surrendering to the threat of an imperialist invasion “pacifist”, but yes, German politics, as politics everywhere, is full of insane crackpots.