• cyd@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is an unserious proposal. Germany spends about 1.5 percent of its GDP(*) on defence, much of it wasted, and increasing it to even 2 percent has involved painful and extended political wrangling. If the country collectively cannot find the will to tweak its budget to fund a modest increase in defence spending, it is not going to countenance universal conscription.

    (*) GDP, not budget; error pointed out by Enkrod

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        7 months ago

        Except that you need to actually house, feed, clothe and train those draftees and most western militaries no longer have the capacity to do that at scale.

        The fact that it is legally easy does not say anything about how difficult it will be organizationally

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          CoD 2 Tutorial Russian Campaign vibes. Throwing potatoes to train throwing grenades incoming.