05/15/2025
Amid the growing threat from Russia, Germany is preparing for its biggest rearmament in decades. The new Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, has promised to transform the Bundeswehr into the strongest army in Europe.
Merz made the announcement on May 14 during his inaugural speech to parliament in Berlin. The German Chancellor was quoted by Bloomberg .
Friedrich Merz said that his government’s priority is to transform the country’s armed forces into the strongest army in Europe, which will help counter the threat from Russia.
The Chancellor promised that his ruling coalition would “provide all the financial resources that the Bundeswehr needs,” which he said would be in keeping with the status of Europe’s most populous and economically strongest country.
“Our friends and partners also expect this from us. Moreover, they practically demand it,” Merz emphasized.
According to the publication’s sources familiar with the discussions in the coalition, the budget of the Ministry of Defense should increase by more than 15% this year – to more than 60 billion euros.
During his speech, Friedrich Merz also noted that Germany will introduce “a new, attractive form of voluntary military service” to increase the size of the army. It should encourage young people to take responsibility for the country’s security.
At the same time, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, in his first parliamentary address to the new federal government, stated that if too few people volunteer to join the army, Germany could return to compulsory military service.
As OBOZ.UA reported, Germany may return compulsory military service . In addition to the shortage of weapons, Germany needs to quickly solve the problem of a shortage of soldiers, and if the Bundeswehr cannot recruit enough volunteers, it will be forced to restore compulsory military service.
That’s a tall order. Not the ability to build weapons, but to get the necessary soldiers. Not the number of them, but the ones who will fight like Ukrainians. Decades of wokeness has left its mark on the land.
It’s a good plan and it will probably work.
But it doesn’t help Ukraine right now; he won’t even commit German peacekeepers.
What is needed now is combat troops, not “peacekeepers”; several divisions (I suggested a minimum of six), to guard Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts.
And : European aircraft patrolling free Ukraine and shooting down putinaZi missiles.
Yes.
Europe still have a lot of problems gathering the required courage to assure its existence.