The German government will not abandon the purchase of F-35A fighter jets due to the lack of modern alternatives for the role of a nuclear weapons carrier.
  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
    673·
    3 days ago

    Of course they will.

    People in Germany as well as internationally spend the last 3½ years pushing daily propaganda about the oh-so-useless German government to get the conservatives back in to office.

    You know, the same corrupt and fossil-fuel addicted people that manufactured a dependence on Russian oil and gas. The same ones that destroyed the Bundeswehr. The same ones that spend the last years building up connections to US MAGA morons and getting help from them on how to campaign on lies and culture war while operating purely on obstruction. The ones that love to fuck over their citizens and country for money.

    So they will of course keep the F-35 order. With their newly found money (from debts that were totally unacceptable as long as they were not in power) they will probably find an excuse to order even more or kill some other German/European projects to buy overpriced US crap instead. Just like they are already talking plans to restart Nordstream to import gas from Russia again, this time with US cooperation, because dependence on two hostile nations is even better than on one.

    The morons get exactly what they voted for and will cheer, completely ignoring reality because the lies poured into their damaged brains sound so nice. All while laughing about US voters for doing exactly the same.

    I really hope for a big meteor soon, to save this planet.

      • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
        65·
        3 days ago

        I am not a fan of invented (if truthy) quotes here. (Besides the quote being in German in addition.)

        • NewDay@feddit.orgEnglish
          91·
          3 days ago

          It is not really a verbal quote. It represents their politics and scare tactics about high energy prices and freezing while winter.

          • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
            42·
            3 days ago

            That’s exactly the point. It shows Merz next to an invented quote. If you don’t think about it, it looks as if it’s a quote from Merz.

            • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
              51·
              2 days ago

              While I understand your argument in theory, there’s another point: who cares if the quote is real in this specific case?

              Merz is a pathological liar. So you can either truthfully quote him or tell the truth.

              • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                I don’t really see how telling the truth necessitates putting quote characters around something he didn’t say. Especially not in front of an audience who don’t know Merz as well as politically-inclined Germans do and who may read the words in the sharepic using Google Translate or similar.

                The road to fakes like the below is lined with sharepics like the above. I don’t think it makes sense to use the same means as right-wing post-truth propagandists.

                Fake (German)

                fake Claudia Roth quote

                Notably, while this fake has the same basic layout, it even omits the quote characters and includes some “this is satire” small print.

          • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            At the very least it should be marked and it should not use quotes, imo. Bonus points for not being in German and for being obvious satire to non-Germans.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    141·
    3 days ago

    What does modern in case of aircrafts even mean? And can’t the Dassault Rafale carry nuclear weapons?

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      30·
      3 days ago

      The nuclear weapons in Germany are from the US, and the US refuses to help adapt them for fighter jets other than US made.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      You need tiers of capability. Nukes are one, but a more readily used one is the ability to knock out (or at least suppress) ground based air defense. Stealth aircraft like the F-35 are perfect for this mission, they can get in range, fire off an anti-radiation missile, and get out. Non-stealth aircraft may be forced to turn back before they get their shot off, thus leaving the enemy air-defense active and forcing a scrub of the planned attack on what the air defense was defending.

  • zaxvenz@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    maybe the germans plan to strip them down to the last bolt and reverse engineer them