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Originally Posted by _dgn_
Who are these "we" ? The German Luftwaffe ?
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The Western military, no matter how it is set up.
If -
and that means: >>if<< - I end up supporting the war that maybe is in the making, I feel and think about the American or British or Israeli soldiers and pilots the same way than if they would be German soldiers or pilots. The flag on their uniforms I do not really care for, nationality is not of any interest for me, nor of any emotional quality.
If I end up supporting this war, I see the Western military carrying it out fighting on our and my behalf - and that is good enough for me to feel for the American GI the same way than I feel about a Bundeswehr grunt or an Israeli. I would support all of them without difference, since "we" are all the same team.
Hopefully.
In case of European governments, you cannot be sure of anything anymore when it comes to Palestinians and the Middle East. The German government has just warned the Israelis over their decision to form more houses in a part of Jerusalem that is in the West and that would be their part by any internationally recognised treaty draft anyway, and Israeli newspapers have reported that the Germans even should have threatened to stop the delivery of German Type 214 U-boats if the Israelis do not obey. At the same time the Germans have held talks with the Iranian trade minister, and said those talks were "lucrative" and "successful". As a German commentator laconically wrote: there is no word on the Germans having threatened the Iranians over their support for terrorist operation against Israel, their support for terror organisation Hamas, and the delivery of missiles into the gaza strip and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Maybe those U-boats even end up in Iranian harbours, who knows? Then the US Navy would have a big problem in the gulf. A very, very big one.