Germany – Blazingcatfur

All for one: Norway, Germany sell Canada on shared submarine fleet

Both Norway and Germany invoked an all-for-one, one-for-all approach as they this week sharpened their public and private pitches for Canada to select the Type 212CD as the navy’s next submarine.

Both long-standing NATO allies, the two European powers are now putting more emphasis on what it means for Arctic and North Atlantic security for three nations to operate the same boat.

“We are thinking of the submarine fleet not as a Norwegian fleet and a German fleet and a Canadian fleet, we were thinking of a common fleet,” Marte Gerhardsen, the state secretary to Norway’s minister of defence, told CBC News in an interview this week.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

CDU pamphlet scandal: Resignation templates sent to AfD lawmakers backfire spectacularly

Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), who currently rule the country in coalition with the Christian Social Union (CSU), have sent out pamphlets to all AfD lawmakers, explaining to them just how dangerous their party is and providing a template resignation letter to facilitate their departure from the anti-migration party.

The 35-page booklet titled “Decline for Germany. No Alternative” claims that the party is “harmful to democracy, anti-Semitic, nationalist.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2026May 30, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Should the Liberal government decide to go with the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) bid, the German shipbuilder has now pledged to deliver four Type 212-CD submarines to the Canadian Navy by 2036, the country’s defence minister tells CBC News.

Boris Pistorius said Wednesday that he has every confidence that the company will meet the delivery goal, which emerged early on as one of the major competitive differences between TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard.

by Blazingcatfur•May 28, 2026May 28, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

German submarine bid promises Canada $86B economic boost and tens of thousands of jobs

An average of up to 50,000 jobs could be created in Canada over the next five years should the federal government opt to buy the German-made Type 212CD submarine, CBC News has learned.

Up until this point in the fierce competition over the navy’s new submarines, both the German and Norwegian governments and the builder, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), have been reluctant to reveal strict details of the potential economic benefits that could accrue from their proposal.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

Fewer Than One-Fifth of Germans Believe the Bundeswehr is Combat-Ready

Just 17% of Germans think that the Bundeswehr is currently capable of defending the country in the event of a military conflict, according to a new survey.

The findings, from a recent INSA poll commissioned by Bild am Sonntag, highlight continuing public scepticism over the state of Germany’s armed forces—despite repeated government pledges to modernise the military following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 24, 2026•0•Germany

Syria Blocks Mass Deportations from Germany by Withholding Travel Documents

The deportation of Syrian citizens from Germany has been virtually paralyzed despite the political announcements made by Berlin in recent months. A key reason is that Damascus has stopped issuing replacement travel documents for Syrian nationals facing deportation.

According to recently published information, since the end of January no German federal state has received the type of documentation required to carry out forced returns of individuals lacking valid passports or complete identity documents.These replacement documents are an essential requirement in deportation procedures. Without them, authorities may face serious legal and operational difficulties in carrying out returns even when a final deportation order exists.

by Blazingcatfur•May 21, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Germany, Syria

Germany: Government Data Reveals AfD as Top Target for Political Violence

According to recent German government data, the number of violent attacks against politicians surged by 28% in 2025, with the national conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) bearing the brunt of the violence.

Out of 183 recorded violent crimes targeting politicians last year, 121 were directed at AfD representatives.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 18, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Crimes Against AfD Triple in German State Within a Year

North Rhine-Westphalia recorded a sharp rise in politically motivated crimes targeting the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2025, with more than 1,000 offences reported, according to figures released by the state government in response to a parliamentary inquiry by AfD lawmaker Markus Wagner.

The data also show that several investigations into attacks on AfD-linked premises in the western German city of Wuppertal were discontinued after prosecutors failed to identify suspects or concrete leads.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2026May 16, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Japan, Germany and Zombie Firms: The Quiet Suicide of Socialized Corporations

Japan, in the 1980s, was supposed to be the future. Its industrial groups, protected by dense networks of banks, suppliers and friendly shareholders, were praised as more patient, more loyal and more strategic than America’s purportedly short-term capitalism. Germany, meanwhile, was sold as the humane alternative to Anglo-Saxon brutality: strong unions, worker participation, industrial discipline, export prowess and a “social market economy” that allegedly reconciled capitalism with solidarity.

by Blazingcatfur•May 15, 2026May 15, 2026•0•Germany, Japan

Afghan migrant, 20, arrested after 11-year-old girl sexually assaulted in German school restroom

A 20-year-old Afghan national has been remanded in custody in Germany after an 11-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted inside a school restroom in Koblenz.

According to prosecutors, the man is suspected of committing sexual acts against the child on school grounds on April 28. A second young man, aged 19, is also under investigation as a suspected accomplice.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 14, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Europe’s sleeping giant rearms

The smell of oil and scorched metal lingers in the workshop where the world’s most widely used submachine gun is made.

As workers armed with blowtorches pore over aiming sights and cocking tubes, row upon row of robotic arms are forging and drilling gun barrels on the factory floor.

This is the secretive manufacturing hub of Heckler & Koch, the German firm perhaps best known in Britain for supplying MP5 submachine guns to UK special forces.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Germany

Germany’s Little America confronts the specter of US troop withdrawal

VILSECK, Germany—A line of tattooed, beefed-up men with bushy beards and American accents formed at the bakery in this tiny Bavarian town on a recent May morning. U.S. muscle cars are driven down the medieval streets here, where Americans outnumber Germans 2 to 1.

Enclaves like this sprouted across Germany in areas occupied by U.S. forces after World War II, shaping the society around them for several generations. Elvis Presley served near here in the 1950s and performed at the local pub.

But Germany’s “Little Americas” are dying out.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Germany, NATO, USA

Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2026May 12, 2026•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany, WTF?

‘Nobody Comes for Welfare’: German Minister Faces Reality Check

Germany’s labour minister has been accused of denying reality after insisting “nobody immigrates into our social welfare system” despite government data showing foreigners are heavily overrepresented among welfare claimants.

The controversy erupted during a government question session on Wednesday, May 6th, when right-wing AfD MP René Springer asked why the government was not cutting spending “where it is obvious: immigration into our social systems” as Germany struggles with rising welfare costs and mounting budget pressure.

Labour Minister Bärbel Bas dismissed the claim outright, arguing instead that immigration was helping to address labour shortages.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 11, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany, WTF?

Trump indicates US could move troops from Germany to Poland

President Donald Trump said Friday night that the United States military could decide to relocate the troops that are currently stationed in Germany and move them to Poland.

The president touted his friendship with the country’s leader, President Karol Nawrocki, who assumed office last year. The Pentagon previously indicated that the U.S. would move 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months.

I’m told this country is Germany …

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by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Germany, USA