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I don’t agree with this. Naval invasions are incredibly difficult. The D day invasion took 4 years to plan by two of the biggest army’s in the world at the time and the German defences in Normandy were thin on the ground with their forces spread over two other major active fronts in the East and in Italy. We could be a very difficult country to invade. The entire western sea board would be a nightmare to land for any invading army. The wild Atlantic coast is a powerful natural defence. A few concentrated defence installations and a decent well funded defence force on the more favourable landing points on the south and east coasts and no one would bother invading us. Look at Odessa and the hesitancy the Russians have about landing there. Unfortunately since February the world of hard power has reared its ugly head. We are well adept at soft power. A small concentrated investment in hard power would do this country no harm at all. If we just give up and say there is no point then we are leaving ourselves wide open. It might seem pointless but the world has changed over the last month and being a helpless weakling depending on others is no longer acceptable .

The German Govt have put up more of a fight for Putin than most of the Russian army.

‘We can’t house our own’

at the risk of derailing the thread, get the fück out with that shitè. The ‘housing crisis’ was caused by a stroke of a do-gooding pen which made every Jamella in the country pack her bags in her mams council house and declare herself homeless in order to get her own free forever house. A fücking shambles that Johnny taxpayer gets screwed for again.

we should join nato, if they’ll have us. It’s wrong just to sit back and let uk/USA defend us because they have to.

This looks like it'll cause a strain in EU relations considering the German's approach compared to many others in the bloc. I don't think it'll collapse or anything drastic like that but I wonder if there will be an attempt to reduce Germany's political power within the EU.

The ex Greek finance minister -Yanis V I think , apart from making a number of ‘gaffs’ made the following one . He absolutely RUBBISHED the idea of the EU establishing a 5000 strong Rapid Reaction Force and one of its main jobs would be to evacuate embassy personnel and suchlike if required. On the assumption that most/all of EU members are in NATO Does he not realise that NATO would look after the ‘rest of the business’? A highly dangerous man to listen to without analysing what he is about.

The Germans let the fox into the hen house. They're attitudes to Russia are pretty at odds with reality frankly.

Let's not get silly though. But they need some extreme internal introspection at government level. It seems at odds to public opinion there.

There is a lot of Thai about the west do not give a dam about Ukr. What comes to mind - a simple example- isa neighbour situation . You have two neighbours who mind their own business . They pass by eachother every morning going to work and exchange a brief hello . They respect eachother - their ‘sovereign state status’- and get on with their own lives in a discrete way. BUT each ‘know’ that if something happened that needed the help of a neighbour that each would be very willing to help out and with a heart and a half. I see the same with soverighn states that respect eachother. Do not the vast majority of soverign states reciprocate embassies for a start

Germany, on a governmental level at least, has always been 100% self serving whether its a financial crisis or War. They don't seem to do philanthropy on any scale unless its 100% necessary and means little or no impact to their economy.

If it’s of no strategic value, we’ll what the hell is Ru doing with 30 or is it 40 staff members. Maybe it does take 28 workers to change a light and being overseen -generals- by the balance of 12 -‘generals’

You are referring to The Strategic Importance of Ireland to the UK in Times of War document of 1981:-

If Syrians who want more democracy and have suffered under Russian bombs were to travel to Ukraine and fight the Russians I'd have no problems with it (but who's going to bring them? Not the Russians)

If jihadists join the Russians so they get a free passport to Europe to kill infidels in Ukraine then try and slip into Poland I do have a big problem with it.

I'm surprised that's so hard to understand