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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
This nNtional guilt complex
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That's what it is indeed. A trauma, and a psychotic self-flagellation.
But it was also a comfortable excuse to shy away from exhausting enterprises, and to practice dollar-diplomacy instead.
Maybe it is changing a bit with the young ones, let's say age 20 or younger. It seems so. However, take into account that while they may not be himndred by the past, they are not used to the trouble of how tough life can be when needing to wage war. They are members of the fun-fun-fun-generation. And that shows even in civil life in peaceful Germany. The expectations are growing into heaven, materialistic desires dominate, economic crisis yes or no. Roman virtues you do not see often these days.
Else, there is nothing wrong in not being enthusiastic to use military forces one does have. I certainly do not want any such enthusiasm. As I often say: determination (in peace as well as in war) is enough. that we have now the latest Leopard2A6 dies not mean we should have participated in the Iraq war, and we (like all NATO) also should not have allowed to get lured into the Afghan maze. There were plenty of too high and too wrong expectations of what could be acchieved from the very beginning. On the other hand, I voted from the beginning for a tough going against the piracy in Somalia, the Lebanon war, and the Gaza operation. All were handled with more or less the brakes set, and in case of the EU and Israel europe opposing the fighting actor. And all of these missions failed for that reason, or are still failing.