Silberengel @Silberengel - 4mo
Statistical surprise of the day is that only 14% of German men under 50 say they would refuse to fight for Germany. An astonishing 61% have said they are ready to fight. That matches the general impression I have, from speaking with German men, with men under 25 being the most-martial. And it's mostly socialists refusing: the Left Party, the Green Party, and BSW from Sahra Wagenknecht. The most martial are the FDP -- whose leader, Christian Lindner, is a reserve officer -- with 74%, and the AfD with 61%. (21% of women would be willing to fight, but we have no further details, as to what else is ailing them.) Also, 59% of the German population would like to spend more on defense, as opposed to 42% who would like to spend more on environmental stuff and a meagre 18% who think #Germany needs to pay more people more money to not-work. https://image.nostr.build/bbccf26e1c040258897cc5396d2078f269ea4a9f270cc56017d3576415c1ff93.png https://image.nostr.build/66591dfb8e245d500175f61c37e3c93599b2a578037c2fd1970ecadea105d19f.png
History is that looking weak leads to getting invaded.
It's focused on defending German territory, of course. It's a study done annually, since the 90s, by a private statistical service for the military, and you can see how the Russian invasion caused defense-willingness to rise. More here: https://zms.bundeswehr.de/de/publikationen-ueberblick/befragung-zwischen-kriegsangst-und-kriegstauglichkeit-5860904
This just comes across as whinging, when you're talking to someone from an ethnic minority, but okay.
I'm not any sort of pacifist, anarchist, or coward. But I think we all knew that.