Telegraph:Germany is building Europe’s most powerful army with a new budget of 377 billion euros

The British newspaper “Daily Telegraph” wrote in a special report that Friedrich Mertz, Germany’s new Chancellor, has scrapped all post-war financial ceilings and announced that Germany must build the most powerful army in Europe.

According to the Telegraph, after allocating more than 50 billion euros last year, the German government has now approved a 377 billion euro plan to rapidly rebuild the army (Bundessor).

This massive budget paves the way for the massive purchase of heavy weapons, including new tanks, advanced artillery, fifth-generation fighters, combat drones, long-range missiles, and warships.

The Telegraph warns that the speed and scale of this armaments are reminiscent, for some observers, of the German war machine of the last century.

Meanwhile, the Guardian newspaper writes in a note by German journalist Mitu Sanyal: “Our generation grew up with the saying that we lost two world wars and are proud of it,” and the slogan “Nie wieder” (never again) was part of the German national identity.

But now the Chancellor wants us to have the strongest army on the continent. Even the German Protestant Church, which has always been anti-war, declared this month that Christian pacifism is no longer morally defensible in the current circumstances.”

The Guardian adds that the government has proposed, in a controversial move, that if young people do not voluntarily join the army, they will be selected through a compulsory lottery, a plan that the author likened to the Hunger Games.

Polls show that the overwhelming majority of young Germans have a one-word answer to this plan: “No.”