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Relax. NATO countries pushing for war with Russia is a far right talking point. He assumed that this line of thinking was pushed.
There are so many Poles in Germany there is no way in hell Germans would as a collective actively sabotage any defensive war efforts if Poland got invaded. I honestly don’t see it with any EU member but I don’t think there is a seizable number of Germans that don’t know somebody from Poland or with family in Poland.
Ukraine before 2014 was just a smaller Russia to us. Barely a Ukrainian community in Germany, unable to tell the language apart, unable to even read the script. Poland was never that. In modern Germany, Polish people have always been our neighbors, friends, colleagues, care takers for our kids, the sick and the old, skilled tradesmen, owners of the good restaurants in town and many more things.
Even the jokes about thieves that were so popular when I was in school stopped.
Couldn't be further from the truth. Just look at how NATO countries have tiptoed around supporting Ukraine. Every major step (artillery shells, tanks, rocket artillery, air defense systems, and fighter jets) took ages of largely pointless discussion before the decision was made. Not to mention the very weak response to Russian military intelligence terror cells that have been caught red-handed across Europe in recent years while they were preparing attacks like smuggling incendiary devices onto DHL cargo airplanes. If this isn't an unbelievably unconfrontational reaction to Russia's actions, then what is?
Absolutely fair point, the response has been weak.
But here's the thing. The official action is slow, but the media stories about the threat are turned up to eleven, 24/7.
For a year & a half the story about the Nord Stream bombing was "Russia did it". End of discussion. Then it turns out it was probably some Ukrainian group, and everyone just shrugs and moves on. The original media-instilled fear doesn't disappear, though.
And that fear is what they use to sell us things like Chat Control.
So... when you mention "Russian military intelligence terror cells caught red-handed," my bar for skepticism is raised. I'm not saying it's impossible (on the contrary, militaries have been doing hybrid warfare for ALL of known human history), I'm just always failing to find the convictions that should follow someone being caught red-handed.
