News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

I so wish Germany hadn't given up on the Bundeswehr for so long....it will take time to get all up and running perfectly again, not to mention the lacking personal.

For the first time experts are thinking loudly about to allow foreigners to serve in the Bundeswehr! IMHO that is more realistic than to reinstate the draft again....

(It would be nice if Putin would wait a few years though)

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]


That's the Grundgesetz....

sgb2.info/DE/Themen/Buergergeld/Fragen-und-Antworten-zum-Buergergeld/buergergeld-faq.html

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

...thing is we are free falling right now, if nothing will be changed, drastically, we will fall far deeper then "only" place 27!

PS: What do you mean with high earnings? People are pissed off because the new Bürgergeld (the official minimum necessary for existence) is sometimes higher than the earnings for hard, regular work!

PPS: What do you mean with low prices? Remember the price shock of a few months back because of the inflation? Now energy prices and gastro prices will rise again...not to mention the steadily rising rents for the inavailable appartements....and so on...

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]


Hopefully!

The ECONOMIST put the former broke Greeks on top of their economy ranking list...whereas Germany is now far at the bottom with place 27....

We will need to borrow money soon!!!

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

....lotsa work still, even with lotsa machines....

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

They are supported by two thirds+ of the Germans too (as all polls show), the local population even going so far and offering them sandwiches in between breaks and such....

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Wow....that's nice! :)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

....and it works! Jordan is a peaceful, well working country....neither a religious nutcase nor an economic/violent mess, quite moderately successful...

The same pali arabs...but the difference to the Hamas ruled strips just across the border couldn't be more extreme...astounding!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

....what I always found interesting is the fact that Jordan has quite amiable relationships with Israel....they have even treaties and such, maybe not friends but for sure not enemies!

A sure sign that "Palestinians" in Jordan have no problem with the Jews...can live with them peacefully....with the right leadership!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]


If you don't want me to partake in certain threads you just should had said so from the beginning! Maybe in the header...

Gute Nacht :)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]


....but not as Palestinians....they had many names during their long history, as you yourself presented, and today one of their names is Jordanians....and I think that would be a way out for all parties, a chance for peace!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

What would you think about the FFK? You know, the "Freedom for Königsberg" movement?

PS: I better take my helmet now, my English detoriates by the hour...:)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Na ja....Poland was very much in existence before the partitions, wasn't it? Or otherwise there wouldn't had been a thing to dissect....

There never was a real country Palestine whose liberation has to be fighted for and freed! The country Palestine will be shiny and new no matter how it comes into being...

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Just look at that map....lots of historical Palestine is actually todays Jordan!

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Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Maybe we should start calling them "Jordanians"...it would clear alot things up!

After all the Jordanians are the same people just outside of the contested borders....

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

The country Palestine is still a plan, since 1947, a plan made by the UN which destroyed the Arabs with a war themselves...

The region Palestine is much older.....and I doubt a sympathetic recognition of a plan of a future country cements or proves it's existence!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


I guess there you have your answer....there is no such thing as hereditary characteristics if they can vanish only due place of birth!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Question....what about the many Poles with german heritage??? Or the other way around, Germans with polish heritage....there are so many of them!

German stereotypes or polish stereotypes? Which would you assign them?

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Hitler was an Austrian!

That's a main fail about nationalist stereotypes, putting it into ever changing borders....as if a community only a few metres left out of current borders can have totally different/even contrary characteristics!

Germany's borders changed so often, the old HRE was so much bigger, only for example....but somehow most of it's then citizens would never be compared to german stereotypes today...just because they don't fit into modern, actual german borders.

That way lays madness!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


You managed with Germans, didn't you? Abit at least?

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


As we are talking mainly about stereotypes and broad generalizations, of course they/a people can change.....if they were ever true!

News / Army of Poland and other kin Slavic countries [39]

The West should more be like the afghan goat herder...dunno what they did but it worked....against Russia AND the combined West!

:)

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

....of course! :)

Genial = mild mannered??? Interesting....such different meanings for the same word, thanks...learned something again!

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

...schade

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

...oh god, that's genial....:):):)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


....now that is interesting...and cool! :)


...yeah....heard that one too!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Thanks, both of you! :)

...but....a lance rider in 1932???

And is there a translation for "Uhlan"? What does that word mean actually?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

What I always wanted to know...what is an "uhlan"? Is there a comparison/translation to a modern language/ranking?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I even might have agreed with you....last year!

I told you 2023 changed alot of standings and opinions....you underestimate that at your own peril....just saying....

Still a Happy New Year to you too, Pawi! :)

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I truly come to believe that will depend on how an AfD led gov would (will?) handle the immigrant-crisis in Germany. Every survey says that is the absolute main bone of contention between a huge majority of our people and our gov...for years now.

Wars and climate crisis and everythinge else is really taking a back seat to that....

Our green/leftists surely expect from Tusk also a more leftist handling of the immigrants, since they have become a minority regarding this in the whole of Europe and look for support now from Warsaw, that should be interesting to watch if and how they will be disappointed!