Several conservative MPs, including Johan Wadeful, deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, believe that the national army would hardly survive two days of fighting under current conditions.
The war affairs expert also spoke in favor of accelerating the purchase of weapons, ammunition and uniforms for the military of this country, given the growing military and financial support of this country for the rearmament of Ukraine, the MP told the DPA agency.
The conservative parliamentarian’s comments come after the coalition government of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz approved an additional military budget of 100 billion euros, which would even allow the purchase of expensive American F-35 fighter jets.
Using the conflict in Ukraine as an argument after President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation to protect the population of the rebel Donbas region, the government ended up spending two percent of its gross domestic product (GDP).
Berlin has long resisted former US President Donald Trump’s demand that all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meet a commitment to spend two percent of their GDP on defense.
Local media comment that Scholz not only joined the economic war against Russia, but also promoted increases in war spending, which would benefit the US military-industrial complex, its main weapons supplier.
The process of turning the Bundeswehr into a powerful armed force hardly came to a standstill. It remained in the same place from the start and is now the responsibility of Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Wadeful estimated.
The German authorities always justify the need to visibly increase defense spending to better prepare the army with the argument of an alleged threat to Europe from Russia, which Moscow always refutes.
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