{"id":9216,"date":"2024-11-07T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:06:22","slug":"hours-after-collapse-german-cabinet-approves-draft-law-on-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/hours-after-collapse-german-cabinet-approves-draft-law-on-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Hours After Collapse, German Cabinet Approves Draft Law On Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Conscription is back in the news. Is it population manipulation around votes, or actually preparation for increasing troop size for an upcoming conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hours-after-collapse-german-cabinet-approves-draft-law-military-service<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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by Tyler Durden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after the German government collapsed<\/a>, forcing Chancellor Olaf Scholz to call for a confidence vote that he said would take place on January 15 (which if he were to lose, which is virtually certain, will force a snap election by March), Reuters reports <\/a>that Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law that would allow the army to gauge the readiness of the country’s 18-year-olds to serve in the Bundeswehr as it looks to boost troop numbers for NATO obligations without resorting to conscription.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reuters reports<\/a> that the war in Ukraine prompted a debate in Germany over whether to reintroduce conscription, which was ended in 2011, to boost shrinking troop numbers in response to a more aggressive Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It currently has 180,000 soldiers, which it wants to increase to 203,000 by 2031, as well as 60,000 reservists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim is to eventually reach 200,000 more reservists, which would enable Germany to swiftly expand its troops to around 460,000 in the event of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the end of conscription, Germany stopped the registration of 18-year-olds for military service, leaving the country without a reliable data base on whom it could call up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the new law is to once again have an overview of those figures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under the model proposed, all men turning 18 – about roughly 300,000 next year – will have to fill out a digital survey on their interest in joining the army.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young women will also be sent the survey but are not obliged to respond.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rather strangely, this decision echoes that of the incumbent UK PM just weeks before their own election that resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a reminder, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to bring back mandatory national service<\/a> if the governing Conservative Party won the July 4 national election, prompting a nationwide debate on a policy Britain abandoned more than 60 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not exactly a winning strategy to gain votes from the ‘draftable’-age cohort?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now zee Germans are doing the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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