News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Hmm....depends! An army is a sure huge symbol of the success of inner unification and a message to outer would-be rivals...it is also a job machine for countless people from all over Europe (and with that an integrating and unifying force on its on) and a motor for scientific and technological progress and advancement all of Europe will profit from.

How efficient it really is would only a hot war show....something which I don't really want to see in my life time....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

Well...I'm not hurting my head over that....there will be expensively paid people who can do that, heh:)

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I had a few years spanish and quite an interest in south american affairs....I wouldn't be averse! :)

Maybe an EU army would be multilingual...why the hell not!

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I still think the pragmatics will win in the end and agree on English...German is no option for historical reasons....and the other choice would be French...and that is much much much more complicated and not as popular...

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Probably Russia...China....immigrants from Africa and Arabia....but mainly to get away from the US led NATO umbrella and those "2 percent"....


Or we start to develop our own! :)

reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2o4rkq/english_to_become_official_language_of_the_eu/

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]

I have no problem with English....the problem here will be the French who will want to avoid using English at all costs! *shrugs*


Yeah...I know this joke! :)

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


The EU army is definitely discussed as we speak! Even if others should come forward to push for it too...or else it would be seen as a german project, for good or bad!:)

But why only Poles? I think if we look in all EU member states for those who want to be soldiers for Europe we will get enough people together....

News / Poland to get the newest version of M1A2 Abrams tank [90]


Not throngs....a few nutters at the fringes...not more....

Not even the AfD talks of "wanting Breslau back"....quite the contrary, they support your nutters in the fight with the EU....

Maybe I don't move in the right circles but I don't know of anybody who "wants anything back"! I don't remember when I heard someone say something in that direction. We have problems to hold on to that what we have...with our declining population and rising immigration...not to mention that we don't have an army to speak of anymore....it's just not a topic anymore....it's done!

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Yeah....and so armored up, like pussies! :)

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]

Must be some serious b*itch, that EU....

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]


Sure....but Hitler killed himself in Berlin '45.....so much for his desires!

You try everything to keep him alive and strong....but...WHY???

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]

Where do you see Nazi forces????

I could imagine Islamists....but Nazis???

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]

Ummm.....they kinda did?

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]

I dunno if you listened to all the speeches in Peking to celebrate the 100th birthday of the CKP? Or at least what the experts said to that?

The next conflicts will not be between the EU and Visegrad but between the West and China!

The new Cold War is already beginning, hot proxy wars will be next (with Taiwan starting maybe)....so....it will become a matter of survival for the likes of Orban NOT to be seen as chinese Trojan Horses in Europe, that should become very uncomfortable very soon!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


But it is their one and only!

If Israel wouldn't exist it would be back to haunted minority across the countries for them....no more "safe haven" in the case of need.

Everybody else living there has alternatives (especially the Arabs), the Jews don't!


They are never Germans either, the history forbids it to call them that.....

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


I like them! Plucky people, survived the worst and still kicking strong!

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Well, I think as long Israel's survival is threatened daily they have all rights to demand support from its former torturers...I wish Germany would be more direct in its support not trying to appease the sultanats at the same time too!

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


That is an interesting insight about the Germany the US soldiers encountered....it seems there were no Nazis at all (?)

nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/wwii-allies-impressions-of-germany

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

But you know how it goes...as long as they are winning the doubting voices are always small and easy to overhear.....

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Mabe because it's not the clear cut? Many Ukrainians greeted the Wehrmacht as liberators from the Russians, Hitler even promised them their own country at first.....another big blunder!

...Reinhard Heydrich noted in a report dated July 9, 1941 that "a fundamental difference between the former Polish and Russian [soviet] territories. In the former Polish region, the soviet regime was seen as enemy rule.... Hence the German troops were greeted by Polish as well as the White Ruthenian population [meaning Ukrainian and Belarussian] for the most part at least as liberators or with friendly neutrality.... "[6]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_in_German-occupied_Ukraine

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

Well, the Nazis had been the most important factor during 1933 till 1945 in the (Greater) German Reich....maybe the editors think that's missing?

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

Yeah...a council member.....you have to be a communist for that, a party member....don't tell me everybody and his grandmom could take part in that!

Interesting tidbit....after Hitlers rise to power he closed the acceptance of membership in the NSDAP. He feared (rightfully so) the masses of opportunists who now sought to gain influence in the new age with becoming members. Membership form 1933 onwards was now strictly controlled and more or less only awarded for special deeds (war heroes and such).

In the end there must have been millions more "Soviets" than actual Nazis around....does that make the Russians more compliant and guilty for those 20 million murdered people?

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


That seems to be a problem.

Germany's official name between 1933 until 1943 had been
"The German Reich"....and between 1943 till 1945 it was
"The Greater German Reich".

That seems to overwhelm non-german readers and writers....nothing with Nazi innit!

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

"Soviets" means also Communist, at least members of the communist party....I doubt the illiterate farmer could count as either...

But it all had been ethnical Russians (+assorted ethnicities).

So, you could also say Russians when you talk about their barbarism....but that's not so easy as you see them rather as the pure hearted "damsel in distress" fighting and winning against the german monsters!

Ask the Poles which barbarian they preferred as both sat over Poland to partition it like a cake!

So....either it was Nazis against Soviets....or Germans against Russians....that would be only fair, don't you think?

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Germany had lotsa names during its long past....maybe they just use it to differ between the Germany's till 1933 and from 1945 onwards? :)

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Do you make a difference between the Soviets and the Russians? Why now?


Germany just agreed to pay a few Billions to the Hereros, because they colonized Namibia for a few years....ask me how I like that!

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Do you really believe it had been "the Russians" who murdered the millions of people during Stalin's reign? (About 20 MILLION people)

Who murdered the polish intelligencia at Katyn? Russians or Stalinists?

All of them guilty? From the newborn baby to the old Babushka?


I dunno....if I follow your logic "The Russians" had been quite the barbarians themselves....murdering 20 million people (worse than the holocaust!)....maybe the Germans would had been right in trying to kill them all? To end that murdering and for revenge of course....

Your logic sucks seriously, Rich!

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


I disagree...the war they fighted in the West was totally different, no Untermenschen....it was the racist Nazi ideology which destroyed them, first Russia and then Germany.

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Even so....burning the land and turning a usually rather lethargic population into hostiles was the worst of all ways to go about it, they HAD to know that!

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


I think we can agree on that Hitler did everything wrong!

But then, he was a luckless painter....I put the blame on the professionals, the german High Command, they should have known better, they should have done something!


If that's my choice I say the Democrats. But even that would be wrong. I'm quite sure that alot of the million members of the Democratic Party had been against such mass destruction...

So, I put it to those people who actually ordered to "push the button" and those who actually "followed orders" and did push the button.

Please kindly accept my decision, thank you!

PS: To call "The Americans" is actually just a try to broaden the blame....to lessen the blame on those actually responsible!