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If you think the CAF is FUBAR, Germany says hold my beer.

A step in the right direction....

The U.S. Department of State has approved the sale of 60 CH-47F Block II Chinooks to Germany, along with related spares, mission equipment, training and support, at an estimated cost of $8.5 billion.

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A step in the right direction....

The U.S. Department of State has approved the sale of 60 CH-47F Block II Chinooks to Germany, along with related spares, mission equipment, training and support, at an estimated cost of $8.5 billion.

H-47-Chinook-mit-Luftbetankungsfahigkeit_0-1024x764.jpg



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A step in the right direction....

The U.S. Department of State has approved the sale of 60 CH-47F Block II Chinooks to Germany, along with related spares, mission equipment, training and support, at an estimated cost of $8.5 billion.

H-47-Chinook-mit-Luftbetankungsfahigkeit_0-1024x764.jpg


A step in the right direction?? With their budget woes & annual list of complaints, I feel like this skyrockets them to…somewhere 🤷🏼‍♂️

60 Chinooks is an amazingly formidable airlift capability on the battlefield! But that’s also going to cost a lot of maintenance $$…maintenance $$ they don’t seem to have or use given their current state…

But agreed. It’s a solid start on turning things around if they stay on top of things!



Man…who would have thought the ‘powerhouse of the EU’ would essentially have laid up their entire armed forces?

(All of their subs tied up, an entire class of ships lopsided/rejected, etc)
 
It seems that everyone, Canada included, thought that ugly thing we call "war" was dead and buried once the Berlin Wall fell.
It ties in with the "End of History" thing by Francis Fukuyama. He (and many others) thought that the Wall falling and the end of the USSR meant that liberal democracies "won" and it's all good from there on in.

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It ties in with the "End of History" thing by Francis Fukuyama. He (and many others) thought that the Wall falling and the end of the USSR meant that liberal democracies "won" and it's all good from there on in.

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What an idiot, especially because he claimed to be a historian. And what a bunch of fools who believed him ...

Why history didn’t end​

Thirty years ago, the American political theorist Francis Fukuyama put forward the idea that history was coming to an end, converging on the kind of liberal capitalist democracy that emerged victorious from the Cold War. His lecture, article, and the ensuing book, caused a huge stir, becoming famous and infamous in equal measure. In his new long–read, Nick Spencer looks at what Fukuyama said (as opposed to what people thought he said), where he was right, why, ultimately, he was wrong, and why history didn’t (and won’t) come to an end.

 
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