1-800-VeeNeedCAS
From the Balkans to Afghanistan, the Germans did mess up big time. It is time to take on Germany and hold it accountable.
Remember the bloody wars in ex-Yugoslavia?
Germany got them started by recognizing Slovenia’s and Croatia’s independence unilaterally - yes, Germany did that without consulting anyone and in disregard of the european agreement it had signed. Germany is chiefly responsible for the worse conflict in Europe since WWII that left half a million people dead.
Now to Afghanistran and what’s going on in the Northern part of the country, more specifically in the Kunduz province.
Guess which coalition and NATO member was in charge of the whole North East? Germany.
Kunduz is historically a Pushun area in an otherwise overwhelmingly Tajik populated Northern region. It has been a hotbed for insurgency since 2003. The “Talibans” never went anywhere and the Germans refused to take them on. Bundeswehr operations revolved around large armored convoys - not patrols outside “urban” areas - to resupply FOBs. Each and every time there was one shot fired at them, the Germans called for air support. Hence them being dubbed 1-800-VeeNeedCAS. Long (and true) story short : I recall a Bundeswehr officer in Kunduz in 2005 complaining about someone having thrown a hand grenade over the wall of his compound…
How does that translates in the field? By the death of scores of innocent civilians like in 2009 in Kunduz, when a Bundeswehr colonel ordered an air strike that killed 91 who where just collecting fuel from a bogged down truck.
Shall we mention Germany selling the precursors to Saddam’s chemical weapons used against Iran and Iraqi Kurds ? Shall we mention its equivocal relationship with the worse of the Turkish Islamist far right in the 70s, 80sand 90s (and possibly even now) ? Shall we … The list is long and is the one of unadulterated unaccountability.
US taxpayers are funding close to half of Germany’s defense expenses. France is single-handedly fighting for the whole of Europe in the Sahel. The sole reason Germany reluctantly partakes in international military operations is to seem to be doing its share - and still it refuses to fight.
It is time to have a serious conversation with the Germans. It is time to re-evaluate the very existence of NATO as we know it as it fosters a culture of irresponsibility among many of its members not willing to meet their defense obligations, which in turn divides Europe along lines that have nothing to do with the actual rapport de force.