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Well he would say that wouldn’t he, it’s his job. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
You don’t need to “control” Russia… you just need to kick it in the nuts hard enough to let it fall apart. Russia effectively is last colonial empire… most of what geographically defined as “Russia” are bunch of small countries occupied by Russia (some back in Zar times and some during Communist rule). And none of these countries forget that they were occupied. And they don’t like Moscow. Yes, after Russia fall apart some of these countries will align with China… and some with Middle East… but none should have nukes and UN veto. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
You really believe that? lol That would probably be worth more than their GDP, last I knew they aren't spending all their GDP on tanks alone... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Or arm Ukraine heavily to avoid that. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Kaliningrad is going to be german again | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Germany isn't getting ready to go to war. Germany is starting to get ready to be part of the defense of NATO. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
UNLESS Ukraine defeats Russia before then, with Germany’s help. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Says who? Them?
Last I saw they had enemy combatants 30km in.
Where’s all these tanks to repel them?
I think we in the West are in for an existential crisis when it comes to pass even more that the Emperor had no Clothes when it comes to ground wars now with Russia.
They aren’t the threat the complex and Hollywood has made them to be now in 2024 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I think they are ready now by the looks of it | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Everyone getting ready for war. India saying same thing. Be ready for war with China in 3-5 years or atleast within the decade | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Because our army is a mismanaged pile of shit which, instead of building sensible defense capabilities for Europe, spent 20 years being stuck in Afghanistan and making that our whole doctrine. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
How does he mean? After they conquer Poland, again? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Which they're buying from China | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I guess Putin wouldn't attack Germany or any major NATO power directly. But if Russia ultimately wins in Ukraine or gets a favorable "peace deal", that lets them keep the occupied territories and prevents Ukraine from joining NATO, they will continue their war of conquest as soon as their army is rebuild (which would take about 5 years).
First they will attack the rest of Ukraine again, then conquer Moldova, ... but ultimately, Russia may be tempted to take a greater risk. If Germany and other NATO members don't prepare for war and stay mostly defenseless, Russia may try, for example, to quickly invade the Baltics. The invasion could only take some days, with minimal causalities.
Then Russia will dig in at the new border to Poland and ask NATO: *"What will you do about it? Start a conventional war against us you know you can't win and risk a nuclear war? All about some small countries with only 6 million people, that, as you know, historically belong to Russia anyway?"*
But if NATO is prepared and strong troops are already stationed in the Baltics and along the rest of the Eastern border of NATO, there won't be any easy landgrab for Russia. It will be them who has to chose to enter a war that they can't win. Hopefully then it won't come to the worst.
Deterrent works and can secure peace. We have seen it in the Cold War. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
yes :) | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
For a peace time army, that not surprising.
If and when a modern nations like the UK or Germany mobilizes, thatss not just troops, that also their industry, and that's all pre-planed. One day you might be producing robot parts in 35 hour weeks, next your company get mobilized, all vacation gets cancelled and you are now a war time subsiduary of Rhein-Metal producing god knows whatever makes boom in 60 hour weeks.
We can argue all day about what might be sufficient for a peace time army in terms of stockpiles, but lets not forget what industrial capacity and, most importantly, capabilities and skills really looks like. And THAT is why some nations have larger stockpiles than others. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
5 years? Try 5 minutes! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
There's a big country named Poland between them. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
We need to be ready for war with Russia ASAP. That’s the best motivator for their terrorist dictator to not attack us | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
What is the point of having Nukes if everyone goes to war anyways
The point was supposed to be so no power attacks another | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Russia should be readying for Chinese invasion. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Someone with an interest in modern militaries. Not an expert by any means. But if what I've read about the state of the German military is even remotely correct, then 5 years isn't enough. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
GDP of Germany = 4 Trillion USD
GDP of Russia = 2 Trillion USD | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I'll give you two reasons why Germany doesn't get nukes, and ironically both involve an Austrian. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Also most of the stuff that are a few generations behind the latest, are still very very capable equipment. Older himars are still very deadly. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Not really, saved 30 years of spending on equipment that would have needed to be replaced 4 or 5 times over. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Thank you for the first person perspective. Obviously I can’t contest your experiences and mindset. But how do you see a broken Russia resembling? A collection of smaller states with Moscow the capital and power centre? Or the breakup of all major republics? And do you think it would be peaceful? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
More tanks? No. They would need to build factories (which takes years) and get parts that aren't available due to sanctions. And reports say they are already stretched thin for qualified workers. It isn't a matter of money and raw numbers of people. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
What equipment do you think they replace that much? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
You forgot about the UK, US and most everyone else. Significant amount of lend lease flowing into Soviet Union. And Germany did spend a huge part of it’s industrial capacity to fight vs the allies | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
And thats why none of them are worthy of their positions. Too much selfish actors in positions of powers may well mean the death of everyone. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I am not knowledgable enough. I do know that Germany still has enormous industrial capacity, manpower and skilled workers.
About the mobilization plan: I do not know how they couldn't. Isn't the UK part of NATO?
I know this because I worked in a larger logistics office during my time in the bundeswehr. In just those 10 months I had 2 mid sized training exercises for mobilization, and that was WAAAYYY back when 9/11 was still fresh in everybodies minds, which means there wasn't any near peer threat on the horizon. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I swear it would be irony if Russia fucked with the nuclear option, got utterly kurbstomped by everyone elss and a few nuclear strikes on their strategic storage sites ensured global warming was posponed for a few years. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Keep trying with this nonsense about Europe preparing for war with Russia... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
They are already at that point, lol
They’re burning money and having triple shifts in factories to keep production running 24/7 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I agree Iraq was an unnecessary offensive occupation based entirely on lies. That being said we did gain a lot of combat experience for soldiers which is invaluable. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Munitions have a shelf life you know | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Never thought I would’ve been cheering for Germany in the third round, but here I am. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
What have you been doing?!
You should already be ready!!
That’s. Your. Job!!!! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
India has active border disputes with China. Indian and Chinese soldiers were killing each other as recently as 2022. Them helping Russia does not mean they are friends. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Do you think the military has enough people to fight or are they talking about drafting? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
At least the teams will be autobalanced this time | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
That’s a funny joke if this dude thinks Putin is going to be around in 5 years. Ukraine is pushing back into Russian territory, so it’s only a matter of time until Russia does something desperate like a nuclear attack which will trigger a NATO response. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I'm curious why they aren't ready literally right now? Like hasn't Russia been their biggest threat since napoleon was defeated? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
China wants all that Land back. Partly to recoup what they view as theirs, partly for all the natural resources the land contains. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Translation: Give me some toys | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Are you watching Ukraine?
Vehicles from 30+ years ago of all types are being used to great effect.
The F16 is 50 years old lol | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
The 1950’s called and they want their nuclear strategy back. Spoiler: if your only real deterrent is starting a nuclear war then your ability to respond to issues is incredibly limited | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Rheinmetal to the moon | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Hey I think I’ve seen this one before | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
What I learned from the [Guns of August](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August) is that everyone involved in WW1 was defending themselves. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I'm worried Putin will just say f this, and nuke the entire world including himself as his final hoorah once he realizes he's got not much left to do but wait to be conquered. Then, we all lose. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
I mean Russia is a shadow of the Soviet Un Un as well. All sides scaled down proporitionally. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
How is it biting them in the ass? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Well, Romney was at least… | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
They're mostly reactivating them. Those are not new tanks, that's the soviet stockpile. Which would fare even worse against NATO than it currently does against Ukraine. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
People totally forget the fact that the USSR very likely would have fallen during WWII if not for the Lend-Lease and Stalin himself said that. They didn’t have the production nor the fuel to sustain themselves back then, and they sure as shit don’t have it now with how much more work it takes to build modern machinery. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Crazy how Biggest economy in Europe is unprepared for any military conflict | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Is this some kind of opinion I’m too American to understand? For real though, I totally agree. In my college days I thought US should reduce military spending for other segments but this war makes me feel so much better our economy is partially founded on military strength. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Here, they have discussed more drafting and making the military more enticing to join | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Si vis pacem, para bellum | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Congratulations! You have made it to the top 5 most stupid comments I have ever seen. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
We can't even control North Korea. Noone will control Russia in the next decades. Best we can hope is to repel them.
I go with sun tzu here. Strengthened Ukraines defense and build Russia a golden bridge to retreat. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
It can bite if EU countries are forced to switch to war economy, meaning a larger precent of the GDP must be allocated to army. Russia already switched a while ago and this move seems like an "all-in" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-08 |
Called the United States...who propped their ass up big time. They ain't shit without help. They couldn't woop the Texas State Defense Force. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
I thought we had learned our lessons about the futility of WW1 and WW2 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
So... for everyone else, you got 5 years (maybe) to build that fallout shelter... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Germany had a better trained army but its small and under supplied for decades. This war has shown that it doesn’t matter how rich you are if the industry to produce weapons isn’t there then it’s a useless advantage. You need a mix of high and low equipment. Russia focuses on Numbers while NATO focuses on superior weapons but low numbers. Who wants to fight/die in a trench in eastern Europe, people in the west aren’t war hungry as we were during ww2, most adults want to work on careers and travel/ be influencers. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
So Trump was right on calling Europe out for underfunding their NATO spending and taking an over reliance on Russian imports. Ill take my down votes now. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Yeah I’m sure the Tsar really thanked Roosevelt for sending lend lease tanks and weapons to fight Napoleon’s invasion.
Wait a minute… | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Third time’s the charm! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
What 2 videos are these? Sound super interesting | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
"..in case of war with Russia" would had been a better title.
Pedantic I know but it could be read as if it's a plan to do so in 5 years.
Also it should've been ready 5 years Ago. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
They’ve played the long game this time | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Yeah but things like ships or airforces take decades to design and build. If you mobilise all your resources too early, they will be obsolete by the time real conflict arrives and most of your resources are wasted on unkeep during peacetime. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
German elites are really out of touch with the average citizen. If we're done with the paper work in ten years, who the heck is going to fight? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Fifty reactivated, not new tanks. No one believes they can produce more than 3-4 new ones. And 50 a month isn't enough. They are losing more than 100 per month. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
The direction things are heading India will soon have to make a choice either join china, Russia, Iran and North Korea or join those on Americans side.
We are on the very edge of ww3. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
I wouldn't know about German tank production. But since Ukraine is taking care of all of Russia's tanks, 3 per year from Germany should do fine. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
This math has been done. Russia has about 1 year before it is in serious trouble running low on military vehicles and artillery. It has about 2 years until the economy goes. Nope, they don't have years.
Good luck fighting a war with Ukraine using sharp sticks. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
If I was representing the German military I'd say that too | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
"We controlled the east of Germany for forty years, once, after a big war. Therefore it is our birthright".
Am I doing russian right? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
> The ones who do are part of the disease. Most want peace.
> Intelligent_Topic545
Only way you get peace is by preparing for war; always has been, and always will be. Your declaration about military men and women being a disease and humanity being better off without us - the current and veterans - speaks volumes of your sheer ignorance.
The only reason you live in peace... and we KNOW you live in a peaceful area of the world from the sheer gall you display with your insults... is because of the people who serve and served, and the sacrifices they have made.
Grow up and wake up to the real world. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Which war exactly? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Are the nukes being maintained and active? As in do they pose a real threat? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
We are in peace with our direct neighbors. We saw the horrors of war. We want peace and thought the world mostly at peace. No big wars in Europe anymore, that would justify a big military. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
As someone living in the Baltics, I would much prefer to be wiped out by a nuclear blast than live a second under russian rule. There are fates worse than death. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
You can't win a defensive war just with air power. To defend territory you need feet on the ground. Many of them.
Exactly because nuclear deterrent should be our last option, not our first (our second after air strikes) we need a capable, conventional ground force, that can stop Russia from even attempting a fast landgrab.
We absolutely have the capacity to make that happen, we just need to get off our asses. Time is ticking. For the moment Russia is fully occupied with Ukraine (and we all hope that they will fail to conquer it), but in parallel they are already planning and preparing for a larger war against Europe/NATO. According to experts, we have about 5 years to prepare ourselves to prevent that war from happening. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
You sound like this was stupid. The big wars in the last hundreds of years started in Europe and mostly between countries that now are in a big friendship party. So why should they think of war again? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Air power is important but can't replace ground forces in a war that is about defending borders/keeping invaders out.
Look up what US generals actually say about this. There is a reason why the US armed forces are currently going thru a major reform to change back from capabilities for smaller asymmetric conflicts to a larger defense/deterrence force (Large Scale Combat Operations, LSCO) more similar to the Cold War era.
This includes, for example, to refocus from smaller, brigade level structures, back to division level organisation.
All NATO members have a lot of work to do to rebuild their capabilities to defend the alliance against large scale military attacks. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Because after that Russia will never pose a threat again, right? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
No other country has send cruise missiles with the range of Taurus.
By the way, that was the same way of thinking during the First World War. Let’s destroy Germany economically and militarily so that they never pose a threat again. You saw what came of it. It would be similar with Russia. Just because Ukraine will have defeated Russia does not mean that Russia will then be peaceful. It will likely make its military much larger, that’s why you still have to build a strong military for a possible defend | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
With pitchforks and Ladas though? Human wave attacks? They've spent all their even faintly modern tanks already and IFVs in Ukraine and are currently activating stockpiled gear largely from the 50s and 60s. Yes they are manufacturing new gear as fast as they can, but one year's worth of production gets blown up in a week or two at current rates. And what is being manufactured is still an older design due to a lack of access to modern tech.
Any war with Russia to total capitulation that's happening in 5 years is being won today. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
One of the oldest Roman proverbs I remember:
"Si vis pacem para bellum"
If you want peace, prepare for war. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
So what you’re saying is we all have 5 years to live our lives. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
US needs Canada so their war crimes can pale in comparison to their neighbor | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
[First one](https://youtu.be/9Mdi_Fh9_Ag), and [the second.](https://youtu.be/BXpj6nK5ylo)
There might have been a third, too, i don't remember. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Unfortunately not and by a very long way, which is why you have top level leadership saying things like this | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Both during the Napoleonic wars and WWII they were allied with other European countries. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
Nukes are horribly expensive to maintain and literally decay in the meanwhile, yet Russia couldn't afford to prevent their truck tires from rotting in storage. If Russia tosses a nuke and it fizzles then it's total war without limit all at once with the rest of the world. If Russia tosses a nuke and it works as designed then it's still at minimum total hybrid war but conventional weapons. It's sanctions on anybody who's trading with them in the slightest, anything with a Russian flag or cargo mysteriously sinks, every computer system they have gets wiped, all their power infrastructure gets hammered with drones. How long do cities with millions of people last without electricity? I don't care that it's 2024, no food is still no food. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-12-08 |
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