If Putin got arrested somehow, Russia isn't going to nuke anyone. They'd just replace him and the new guy probably wouldn't even want him back.
It's not even about Putin or his imaginary arrest. It's about the provocation. Imagine if the ICC, the UN, or some other global body issued an arrest warrant for Joe Biden. That's a major issue, even though they can't follow up on it. It would make the US more hostile, escalate tensions, and that could lead to nuclear conflict.
It's not about the removal of Putin, it's about antagonizing him and Russia. As well as backing them into a corner.
Personally, I don't think it will reach the stages of nuclear conflict, but we're also closer than we've been in decades, and this certainly inches millimeters us closer still. The chances of nukes are slim, but they do seem to be doing everything they can to make it slightly less slim, and that's still worrying.
I doubt it. If the supply chains are destroyed, people will riot on scales never before seen, especially here in the US. Losing food supplies would result in total collapse of everything our overlords have worked on building.
even though they can't follow up on it. It would make the US more hostile, escalate tensions, and that could lead to nuclear conflict.
I don't think so. I think this is trivial compared to the fact that the EU is supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.
it's about antagonizing him and Russia. As well as backing them into a corner.
Nobody is "backed into a corner" and everyone should feel free to "antagonize" Russia without exhibiting fear of a nuclear holocaust.
If I'm not going to be afraid of antagonizing trannies, I'm sure as fuck not going to be afraid of antagonizing Russia.
they do seem to be doing everything they can to make it slightly less slim, and that's still worrying.
It's actually your worrying that is the problem. The more you exhibit fear of nuclear weapons, the more incentive you give to Russia and China to make nuclear threats a staple of their foreign policy. The more a country relies upon and places its hopes in nuke threats to obtain its foreign policy goals, and the more they persist in this because their intelligence agencies are reading comments like yours and telling them that people fear their nukes, the more likely it is to actually use nukes when those goals consistently fail.
So ironically, it is your expressed fear of nukes that are going to get us nuked, if anything.
I think this is trivial compared to the fact that the EU is supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.
I agree those are bigger issues, but it all adds up, doesn't it? Also, not sure why you're focusing on the EU, when the US is the primary provider of military aid, by a massive margin.
Nobody is "backed into a corner"
Of course they're getting backed into a corner, most of the world is openly against Russia.
and everyone should feel free to "antagonize" Russia without exhibiting fear of a nuclear holocaust.
That's really reductive. Also, it depends on the level of antagonism. Globalist arrest warrants for the leader of a country does seem like a pretty big one.
If I'm not going to be afraid of antagonizing trannies, I'm sure as fuck not going to be afraid of antagonizing Russia.
And you shouldn't be. Antagonize away, my man. But you're also not issuing arrest warrants for Putin, or providing billions in military aid to Ukraine. So there's a slight difference of scale going on.
It's actually your worrying that is the problem. The more you exhibit fear of nuclear weapons, the more incentive you give to Russia and China to make nuclear threats a staple of their foreign policy.
I didn't say I'm worried or afraid, I said it is worrying in the general sense. Also, if randos like me on the internet can shape Russian and Chinese foreign policy, that's something special. Again, there's an issue of scale here.
The more a country relies upon and places its hopes in nuke threats to obtain its foreign policy goals, and the more they persist in this because their intelligence agencies are reading comments like yours and telling them that people fear their nukes, the more likely it is to actually use nukes when those goals consistently fail.
So ironically, it is your expressed fear of nukes that are going to get us nuked, if anything.
That's absurd. Talking candidly about nuclear powers on the internet isn't going to lead to nuking.
And people have been worried about the nuclear issue for decades, it's a known - if relatively slim - danger. Acting like it's not, or that nuclear weapons will never be used (again), just doesn't wash. Of course a proxy war between two heavily armed nuclear powers is going to further increase that small risk. Again, not saying it will happen, and I don't think it will, but the chances are going up. Of course they are. And that's something to discuss.
I think this is trivial compared to the fact that the EU is supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.
Thing is that weapons and supplies can be destroyed, while this would be an absolutely humiliating climbdown for the corrupt Empire. What, Putin made peace so we're going to withdraw our indictment, showing that it was nakedly political from the very beginning?
If I'm not going to be afraid of antagonizing trannies, I'm sure as fuck not going to be afraid of antagonizing Russia.
Trannies don't have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, the greatest energy sources in the world, the largest landmass, and and infinite amount of USSR-era weapons.
It's ironic that you're anti-tranny and yet want to destroy the one country standing against it, presumably to replace it with some puppet leader who turns Russia into another Globohomo hellhole (in your fantasies).
The more you exhibit fear of nuclear weapons, the more incentive you give to Russia and China to make nuclear threats a staple of their foreign policy.
You seem to think that if you put your head in the sand, the Bad Nukes will go away.
The more a country relies upon and places its hopes in nuke threats to obtain its foreign policy goals, and the more they persist in this because their intelligence agencies are reading comments like yours and telling them that people fear their nukes, the more likely it is to actually use nukes when those goals consistently fail.
Odds of that are zero. Nukes aren't used because they think people are 'afraid' of them.
What, Putin made peace so we're going to withdraw our indictment, showing that it was nakedly political from the very beginning?
Everything the ICC does is obviously nakedly political to everyone. The whole point of the ICC is "we say we are the good guys, and everyone we target are the bad guys". That's why the US fought the ICC so much, because when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unpopular the ICC wanted to come after us.
Trannies don't have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world
See this is what I'm talking about. You think I'm afraid of Russia nuking me? "hey this guy is talking shit online! let's end the world over it!!!" LOL dude.
the largest landmass
No idea why people always resort to this cope. Most of Russia's "land" is frozen uninhabited siberian wasteland with no value whatsoever.
Canada has a shitload of useless frozen land, too, but you don't see them trying to brag about it.
and infinite amount of USSR-era weapons.
LOL no, they used them all up in Ukraine this past year. Russia has exhausted its stockpiles and is now stuck with just its new construction capacity.
It's ironic that you're anti-tranny and yet want to destroy the one country standing against it
Also if the Russian trannies were willing to operate are regime shock troops like the Kadyrovites do, Putin would be dressing up in leather chaps and marching with them. He has no principles and will do whatever benefits his power in the moment.
presumably to replace it with some puppet leader who turns Russia into another Globohomo hellhole (in your fantasies).
It would be a huge improvement for the world, most of all Russia, for the Russians to let go of their delusions of empire, accept their relative weakness, and decide to work within the system instead of against it. Japan was able to do this and thrive. Japan remains a relatively conservative society which has been a counterbalancing force against globohomo. Russia could be an even stronger oppositional force once it bends the geopolitical knee, as it must, and it will. Poland and Hungaray and some other eastern european countries are doing more to fight globohomo culture than Russia ever has, but that could change once Russia becomes a democracy and joins the world community as a supportive participant instead of an enemy.
You seem to think that if you put your head in the sand, the Bad Nukes will go away.
False, but exhibiting fear instead of relying on MAD makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely. You are creating a self fulfilling prophecy. If you truly feared nukes, you'd keep your mouth shut and your fears to yourself. Since you are very loud about it, I can only conclude that you want a world where the risk of actual nuclear use is higher, not lower.
Odds of that are zero. Nukes aren't used because they think people are 'afraid' of them.
Nuke THREATS are made because evil empires think weak democracies fear them. Evil empires see democracies as being inherently weak because they are controlled by the common people and not elites (you might not believe this, but Russia and China do), and evil empires seek to exploit this weakness through manipulation of the democratic populace.
If they believe that their nuke threats are finding fertile ground and that they are succeeding in stoking the fears in that populace, they will escalate their threats. If people who side with the policy objectives of the evil empires parrot these nuke threats and fears, the evil empire will conclude that it needs to bolster its useful idiot advocates within the enemy population by escalating its nuke threats.
If any nuke threat ever is believed by any evil empire to have actually contributed to helping it achieve any goals, nuke threats will become a major part of its foreign policy.
Whenever a threat is made, the thing threatened becomes more likely, because once the "bluff" is called, the bluffer loses face and loses all credibility, unless he decides it shouldn't be a bluff after all, and pulls the trigger in an effort to save face and credibility.
So yes, exhibiting fear of nukes -> nuke threats -> nuclear brinkmanship as foreign policy -> much higher risk of actual nuclear use.
Responding to nuke threats with punishment, and showing no fear but rather invoking MAD, is the best way to minimize the risk of actual nuclear use.
The biggest problem in the world right now re: nukes is that nobody thinks limp dick Joe Biden would actually authorize nuclear retaliation. This perception on weakness invites nuclear first use. The United States didn't used to be like this. We used to be a strong nation that was feared. Electing weaklings like Biden makes the world a far more dangerous place. It isn't a coincidence that Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, mere months after Biden cucked out in Afghanistan. Putin made a calculation based on his perception of Biden's weakness.
That's why the US fought the ICC so much, because when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unpopular the ICC wanted to come after us.
The US fought the ICC because it wants impunity for its many wars of aggression. It has nothing to fear from these 'international institutions', who are nothing more than puppets, but it's still so paranoid that it wants to prevent th smallest chance.
See this is what I'm talking about. You think I'm afraid of Russia nuking me? "hey this guy is talking shit online! let's end the world over it!!!" LOL dude.
You said they'd do it if they read comments expressing concerns about nuclear war. And you were obviously saying that you want Russia to be messed with by your government.
No idea why people always resort to this cope. Most of Russia's "land" is frozen uninhabited siberian wasteland with no value whatsoever.
Being very large has many advantages, as well as disadvantages. Hell, if Russia was a small country with similar 'stats', I don't think it would have been nearly as important historically.
LOL no, they used them all up in Ukraine this past year. Russia has exhausted its stockpiles and is now stuck with just its new construction capacity.
Apparently, Ukraine has used 15 year worth of US production, and it will take years to replenish. Not sure if that is real or just propaganda by the military-industrial complex begging for more freebees. I'm shocked at the non-existent industrial production in both the US and Russia.
Nope. Russia isn't even a leader on anti-LGBT laws. LGBTs are legal in Russia and only have issues if they protest. Throughout Africa and the Muslim world, LGBTs are still outlawed.
Russia is the only European country where LGBTP is not accepted. Even countries like Poland have about 50% support for homosexual marriage. Now, I don't mind, but it's a sign of further societal decay. Ukraine is also pretty based, but not quite so based as Russia.
Also if the Russian trannies were willing to operate are regime shock troops like the Kadyrovites do, Putin would be dressing up in leather chaps and marching with them. He has no principles and will do whatever benefits his power in the moment.
It's very funny that you pretend Biden has principles, and Putin doesn't. Even though Putin may actually be a Christian, something no American leader is. I read that Putin was marginalized in the KGB for being a Christian. It was touching.
Japan remains a relatively conservative society which has been a counterbalancing force against globohomo.
Japan is like the Baltic states in that it goes along with everything. Internally, things are also going in the wrong direction, with more acceptance of homosexuality. Everywhere the US imposes its system, societal collapse follows. Even in Egypt when they forced out Mubarak, and the Islamic fundamentalists came to power. Even there, the government was more tolerant of homosexuality than before, or after.
Like I said, I don't mind, but I do mind that it's US imperialism forcing it down everyone's throats.
Poland and Hungaray and some other eastern european countries are doing more to fight globohomo culture than Russia ever has,
They are only one US-sponsored color revolution/coup away from complete collapse though. I like Poland and I like Hungary, but I don't think they can survive as traditional societies. Not in the EU, not under the yoke of the Americans.
False, but exhibiting fear instead of relying on MAD makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely. You are creating a self fulfilling prophecy. If you truly feared nukes, you'd keep your mouth shut and your fears to yourself. Since you are very loud about it, I can only conclude that you want a world where the risk of actual nuclear use is higher, not lower.
That makes no sense. If you don't want nuclear war, you make a noise about it so the criminals in charge of your country won't drag you into one.
Evil empires see democracies as being inherently weak because they are controlled by the common people and not elites (you might not believe this, but Russia and China do),
Putin recently said that Russia calling others 'unfriendly peoples' should actually be 'unfriendly elites'. He knows better than to think that "common people" control anything in the West, which is a high absurdity. Ursula von der Leyen was threatening Italian voters if they voted the 'wrong' way. Hungary is punished by the EU for outlawing the grooming of kids in schools. Basically, nowhere in Europe is there such a thing as 'democracy'. It's a label that they put on their corrupt oligarchies to make it sound better, and to coerce compliance same way they once cited divine right as legitimation for their statelets.
In China, there is actual elite control. A highly competent elite, which is what distinguishes it from the clownshow in the West.
If they believe that their nuke threats are finding fertile ground and that they are succeeding in stoking the fears in that populace, they will escalate their threats.
It's not Putin's threats that worry me. I'd be equally worried if he had said nothing at all about nukes. Capabilities are what matter, not intentions. It's a foundational tenet of realism.
If people who side with the policy objectives of the evil empires
I'll never side with the policy objectives of the evil empires, the US and the EU.
Whenever a threat is made, the thing threatened becomes more likely, because once the "bluff" is called, the bluffer loses face and loses all credibility, unless he decides it shouldn't be a bluff after all, and pulls the trigger in an effort to save face and credibility.
Realism suggests otherwise. That 'credibility' does not matter much at all, because other parties are smart enough to distinguish between vital national interests and hobby-horses. Do you remember the phony nuclear threats the USSR made in the Suez crisis? No one was stupid enough to believe them. But do you think that would in any way undermine a nuclear threat made regarding actual vital interests? Of course not!
The biggest problem in the world right now re: nukes is that nobody thinks limp dick Joe Biden would actually authorize nuclear retaliation. This perception on weakness invites nuclear first use.
???
If there's a nuclear first use, it will be because of Biden's warmongering.
We used to be a strong nation that was feared.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it fears you, as the world's foremost bully and thug, and rightly so.
It isn't a coincidence that Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, mere months after Biden cucked out in Afghanistan. Putin made a calculation based on his perception of Biden's weakness.
Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't seem unlikely that he thought the puppet government in Ukraine could be dislodged with ease, just like the puppet government in Afghanistan was. Why on earth would anyone fight for puppets of imperialist foreigners? Same reason no German should ever fight for his government.
It's not even about Putin or his imaginary arrest. It's about the provocation. Imagine if the ICC, the UN, or some other global body issued an arrest warrant for Joe Biden. That's a major issue, even though they can't follow up on it. It would make the US more hostile, escalate tensions, and that could lead to nuclear conflict.
It's not about the removal of Putin, it's about antagonizing him and Russia. As well as backing them into a corner.
Personally, I don't think it will reach the stages of nuclear conflict, but we're also closer than we've been in decades, and this certainly
inchesmillimeters us closer still. The chances of nukes are slim, but they do seem to be doing everything they can to make it slightly less slim, and that's still worrying.Nuclear war is statistically improbable, total war where supply chains are utterly destroyed is significantly more likely.
I doubt it. If the supply chains are destroyed, people will riot on scales never before seen, especially here in the US. Losing food supplies would result in total collapse of everything our overlords have worked on building.
Yeah, that's why total war is bad. Nobody wants to rule over a desolate wasteland of glowing green glass.
I don't think so. I think this is trivial compared to the fact that the EU is supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.
Nobody is "backed into a corner" and everyone should feel free to "antagonize" Russia without exhibiting fear of a nuclear holocaust.
If I'm not going to be afraid of antagonizing trannies, I'm sure as fuck not going to be afraid of antagonizing Russia.
It's actually your worrying that is the problem. The more you exhibit fear of nuclear weapons, the more incentive you give to Russia and China to make nuclear threats a staple of their foreign policy. The more a country relies upon and places its hopes in nuke threats to obtain its foreign policy goals, and the more they persist in this because their intelligence agencies are reading comments like yours and telling them that people fear their nukes, the more likely it is to actually use nukes when those goals consistently fail.
So ironically, it is your expressed fear of nukes that are going to get us nuked, if anything.
I agree those are bigger issues, but it all adds up, doesn't it? Also, not sure why you're focusing on the EU, when the US is the primary provider of military aid, by a massive margin.
Of course they're getting backed into a corner, most of the world is openly against Russia.
That's really reductive. Also, it depends on the level of antagonism. Globalist arrest warrants for the leader of a country does seem like a pretty big one.
And you shouldn't be. Antagonize away, my man. But you're also not issuing arrest warrants for Putin, or providing billions in military aid to Ukraine. So there's a slight difference of scale going on.
I didn't say I'm worried or afraid, I said it is worrying in the general sense. Also, if randos like me on the internet can shape Russian and Chinese foreign policy, that's something special. Again, there's an issue of scale here.
That's absurd. Talking candidly about nuclear powers on the internet isn't going to lead to nuking.
And people have been worried about the nuclear issue for decades, it's a known - if relatively slim - danger. Acting like it's not, or that nuclear weapons will never be used (again), just doesn't wash. Of course a proxy war between two heavily armed nuclear powers is going to further increase that small risk. Again, not saying it will happen, and I don't think it will, but the chances are going up. Of course they are. And that's something to discuss.
Thing is that weapons and supplies can be destroyed, while this would be an absolutely humiliating climbdown for the corrupt Empire. What, Putin made peace so we're going to withdraw our indictment, showing that it was nakedly political from the very beginning?
Trannies don't have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, the greatest energy sources in the world, the largest landmass, and and infinite amount of USSR-era weapons.
It's ironic that you're anti-tranny and yet want to destroy the one country standing against it, presumably to replace it with some puppet leader who turns Russia into another Globohomo hellhole (in your fantasies).
You seem to think that if you put your head in the sand, the Bad Nukes will go away.
Odds of that are zero. Nukes aren't used because they think people are 'afraid' of them.
Everything the ICC does is obviously nakedly political to everyone. The whole point of the ICC is "we say we are the good guys, and everyone we target are the bad guys". That's why the US fought the ICC so much, because when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unpopular the ICC wanted to come after us.
See this is what I'm talking about. You think I'm afraid of Russia nuking me? "hey this guy is talking shit online! let's end the world over it!!!" LOL dude.
No idea why people always resort to this cope. Most of Russia's "land" is frozen uninhabited siberian wasteland with no value whatsoever.
Canada has a shitload of useless frozen land, too, but you don't see them trying to brag about it.
LOL no, they used them all up in Ukraine this past year. Russia has exhausted its stockpiles and is now stuck with just its new construction capacity.
Nope. Russia isn't even a leader on anti-LGBT laws. LGBTs are legal in Russia and only have issues if they protest. Throughout Africa and the Muslim world, LGBTs are still outlawed.
Also if the Russian trannies were willing to operate are regime shock troops like the Kadyrovites do, Putin would be dressing up in leather chaps and marching with them. He has no principles and will do whatever benefits his power in the moment.
It would be a huge improvement for the world, most of all Russia, for the Russians to let go of their delusions of empire, accept their relative weakness, and decide to work within the system instead of against it. Japan was able to do this and thrive. Japan remains a relatively conservative society which has been a counterbalancing force against globohomo. Russia could be an even stronger oppositional force once it bends the geopolitical knee, as it must, and it will. Poland and Hungaray and some other eastern european countries are doing more to fight globohomo culture than Russia ever has, but that could change once Russia becomes a democracy and joins the world community as a supportive participant instead of an enemy.
False, but exhibiting fear instead of relying on MAD makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely. You are creating a self fulfilling prophecy. If you truly feared nukes, you'd keep your mouth shut and your fears to yourself. Since you are very loud about it, I can only conclude that you want a world where the risk of actual nuclear use is higher, not lower.
Nuke THREATS are made because evil empires think weak democracies fear them. Evil empires see democracies as being inherently weak because they are controlled by the common people and not elites (you might not believe this, but Russia and China do), and evil empires seek to exploit this weakness through manipulation of the democratic populace.
If they believe that their nuke threats are finding fertile ground and that they are succeeding in stoking the fears in that populace, they will escalate their threats. If people who side with the policy objectives of the evil empires parrot these nuke threats and fears, the evil empire will conclude that it needs to bolster its useful idiot advocates within the enemy population by escalating its nuke threats.
If any nuke threat ever is believed by any evil empire to have actually contributed to helping it achieve any goals, nuke threats will become a major part of its foreign policy.
Whenever a threat is made, the thing threatened becomes more likely, because once the "bluff" is called, the bluffer loses face and loses all credibility, unless he decides it shouldn't be a bluff after all, and pulls the trigger in an effort to save face and credibility.
So yes, exhibiting fear of nukes -> nuke threats -> nuclear brinkmanship as foreign policy -> much higher risk of actual nuclear use.
Responding to nuke threats with punishment, and showing no fear but rather invoking MAD, is the best way to minimize the risk of actual nuclear use.
The biggest problem in the world right now re: nukes is that nobody thinks limp dick Joe Biden would actually authorize nuclear retaliation. This perception on weakness invites nuclear first use. The United States didn't used to be like this. We used to be a strong nation that was feared. Electing weaklings like Biden makes the world a far more dangerous place. It isn't a coincidence that Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, mere months after Biden cucked out in Afghanistan. Putin made a calculation based on his perception of Biden's weakness.
The US fought the ICC because it wants impunity for its many wars of aggression. It has nothing to fear from these 'international institutions', who are nothing more than puppets, but it's still so paranoid that it wants to prevent th smallest chance.
You said they'd do it if they read comments expressing concerns about nuclear war. And you were obviously saying that you want Russia to be messed with by your government.
Being very large has many advantages, as well as disadvantages. Hell, if Russia was a small country with similar 'stats', I don't think it would have been nearly as important historically.
Apparently, Ukraine has used 15 year worth of US production, and it will take years to replenish. Not sure if that is real or just propaganda by the military-industrial complex begging for more freebees. I'm shocked at the non-existent industrial production in both the US and Russia.
Russia is the only European country where LGBTP is not accepted. Even countries like Poland have about 50% support for homosexual marriage. Now, I don't mind, but it's a sign of further societal decay. Ukraine is also pretty based, but not quite so based as Russia.
It's very funny that you pretend Biden has principles, and Putin doesn't. Even though Putin may actually be a Christian, something no American leader is. I read that Putin was marginalized in the KGB for being a Christian. It was touching.
Japan is like the Baltic states in that it goes along with everything. Internally, things are also going in the wrong direction, with more acceptance of homosexuality. Everywhere the US imposes its system, societal collapse follows. Even in Egypt when they forced out Mubarak, and the Islamic fundamentalists came to power. Even there, the government was more tolerant of homosexuality than before, or after.
Like I said, I don't mind, but I do mind that it's US imperialism forcing it down everyone's throats.
They are only one US-sponsored color revolution/coup away from complete collapse though. I like Poland and I like Hungary, but I don't think they can survive as traditional societies. Not in the EU, not under the yoke of the Americans.
That makes no sense. If you don't want nuclear war, you make a noise about it so the criminals in charge of your country won't drag you into one.
Putin recently said that Russia calling others 'unfriendly peoples' should actually be 'unfriendly elites'. He knows better than to think that "common people" control anything in the West, which is a high absurdity. Ursula von der Leyen was threatening Italian voters if they voted the 'wrong' way. Hungary is punished by the EU for outlawing the grooming of kids in schools. Basically, nowhere in Europe is there such a thing as 'democracy'. It's a label that they put on their corrupt oligarchies to make it sound better, and to coerce compliance same way they once cited divine right as legitimation for their statelets.
In China, there is actual elite control. A highly competent elite, which is what distinguishes it from the clownshow in the West.
It's not Putin's threats that worry me. I'd be equally worried if he had said nothing at all about nukes. Capabilities are what matter, not intentions. It's a foundational tenet of realism.
I'll never side with the policy objectives of the evil empires, the US and the EU.
Realism suggests otherwise. That 'credibility' does not matter much at all, because other parties are smart enough to distinguish between vital national interests and hobby-horses. Do you remember the phony nuclear threats the USSR made in the Suez crisis? No one was stupid enough to believe them. But do you think that would in any way undermine a nuclear threat made regarding actual vital interests? Of course not!
???
If there's a nuclear first use, it will be because of Biden's warmongering.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it fears you, as the world's foremost bully and thug, and rightly so.
Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't seem unlikely that he thought the puppet government in Ukraine could be dislodged with ease, just like the puppet government in Afghanistan was. Why on earth would anyone fight for puppets of imperialist foreigners? Same reason no German should ever fight for his government.