Few Germans willing to take up arms to defend country, survey shows
Posted by Agonanmous
Few Germans willing to take up arms to defend country, survey shows
Posted by Agonanmous
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The vast majority of wars that people in the West remember taking part in were defeats in foreign lands that caused a bunch of 2nd and 3rd order problems
No shit people don’t want to join if they feel like a repeat of Afghanistan is the most likely conflict
If the country was actually threatened, you’d probably see different opinions. And yeah, Russia, I agree, but most people see them struggling in Ukraine and just don’t believe that they’ll somehow win all of a sudden and turn to target the rest of Europe
Except dictatorships isn’t that true of all countries?
God these surveys are so useless, all they proxy for is how much a population feels threatened at that time (moderated by country specific fixed effects).
> Only 16% of respondents said they would “definitely” take up arms to defend Germany, while an additional 22% indicated they would “probably” do so, bringing the total of those potentially willing to fight to 38%
There are about 33.5 million Germans of fighting age (man and women between 16 and 49).
16% of 33.5 million is 5.36 million.
22% of 33.5 million is 7.37 million.
Together that’s 12.73 million.
I feel like that’s plenty, or am I missing something?