I’ve noticed that in both Belgium and The Netherlands there has been an increase in war talk lately, saying how we need more military personnel and that we need to be wary of Russia. I’ve seen some British articles about it too.
Now, I hope it is purely coincidental otherwise I’d have to get worried about EU+UK being complete idiots and preparing for war.
The war drum is starting to beat here in SEA as well.
being complete idiots and preparing for war
Pretty sure they’ve started preparing for war long ago. The first coup in Ukraine was in, what, 2004? Then there was a wave sweeping southern republics. 2008 was war between Russia and Georgia, plus the financial crisis. Arguably they’ve started preparing at least back then
I don’t follow French news ans social medias as much as I should to stay informed so I don’t know how much they’re beating it, but given that our national discount genocide joe has been blabbering about Ukraine lately I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
Communists in france think Ukraine has a right to self defence and host fundraisers for the ukrainian army. You can extrapolate the rest from here.
Not exactly.
The French equivalent to the Democrats, as in the status quo party that serves to prepare the country for further right-wingery, is Macron’s La République en marche/Renaissance (The marching republic/Rebirth) (with the equivalent to the Republicans would be Marine LePen’s Rassemblement National/Front national (The National gathering/National front)). What the “communists” is referring to is mainly the so called Partie communiste Français (French communist party), a now minority party, which used to be an actual Marxist-Leninist party until the fall of the commintern, since then the PCF has abandoned it’s revolutionary character to become an unremarkable “left” reformist third party that still calls itself communist by pure opportunism, this debacle has caused many splits that gave birth to smaller nominally communist parties ranging from Trotskyists to Marxist-Leninists (Lutte ouvrière, Révolution permanente, Partie communiste révolutionnaire de France, Pôle de renaissance communiste en France, etc…).
I’m guessing it’s the “communist” party, the swarm of trot parties and maybe some (supposedly) marxist-leninist parties like the PCRF? I know the PRCF (Pôle de renaissance Communiste en France) is supporting Russia against the Ukrainian Nazis. I don’t know that much about other parties.
Here in Denmark all parties in parliament besides the demsoc Red-Greens, from fascists to “socialists”, are in agreement to throw money at the military like drunk sailors. We’re told it happens to fulfill “NATO obligations”. We hear a lot of talk about how necessary it is to splurge on war stuff and we get a constant stream of news about undermanned warships and dilapidated barracks.
When it came into office in late 2022 the succdem-led right-wing government tried to raise what they called “crisis awareness”. Instead of politicians telling us that everything is going to be five with them at the helm, like they usually do, we were told how the world was a dangerous place and how the economy or Russia or the big bad bogeyman could come every moment. They used “need to secure funding for the military” to meet the imagined Russian threat as the official excuse to abolish a public holiday. The real reason was different though, as finance ministry ghouls had been salivating over the idea for years before the Ukraine war.
The “crisis awareness” thing didn’t work as a PR strategy and just made people dislike the government even more so they have dialed it down over the last year.
To solve the military’s alleged staffing crisis the politicians plan to expand already existing conscription. Today conscription is male-only and they get so many volunteers that forced military service is practically non-existing. They want to change this so more young people serve in the military for lo ger periods of time. They also want to impose forced military service on women, something that is framed by the government media as a huge advance for gender equality and women’s rights.
The official reason for the increased use of conscription is that they hope that a fraction of the conscripts will like it and sign contracts.
