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.
In my opinion the actual reason for suspending conscription back then was saving money on all the (socially very beneficiary) substitute services you could do.
Now we are reaping the fruits we sowed by letting a bunch of self serving neoliberal arse clowns run the country for decades.