Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.
If the prospect of a broader conflict in Europe seems remote for many, some countries at least are taking it seriously – and, in the term used by Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, taking steps to get populations kriegsfähig: war-capable.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has dramatically raised security tensions across the Baltic region, prompting Finland and Sweden to abandon decades of nonalignment and join Nato. Military capability, however, is not all: citizens have to be braced too.
Yeah, it’s just striking how everything has so much inertia. Ukraine has been holding the fort for 3 years now, and we’re looking at those immense budgets for useless stuff.
Same with the bunkers, let’s make an app to see where you can take refuge in one of the bunkers … let’s see… that can hold short of 500 thousand people country wide. That’s fine, 1 citizen in 160.
New uniforms aren’t useless. If the Bundeswehr wants to be an attractive employer they need modern uniform. I read online that people who served find the current ones very outdated. We just need to invest more in the military in total
You think uniforms are useless?
I would be interested in hearing why every single military in the world uses them.
parade uniforms.
…which again, every military has.
yup and i find 80% of a BILLION Euros a whole lot of money for looking good for ceremonies and street parades but that’s maybe just me
it’s not like the money just disappears, it goes into the economy, right?
yup, into the pocket of the companies with the best lobbyists