Ghosts of the Past: Germany is Weaponizing

German militarism is underway. 

Over the past few months, a noticeable surge in reports has highlighted Germany’s growing obsession with missiles – spanning ballistic, cruise, land-based, and sea-based systems. 🚀🚀🚀

Berlin is pulling in various international partners for this initiative, including the US, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Israel. It increasingly appears that Germany intends to funnel its entire defense focus into procurement, aiming to become Western Europe's dominant missile power. 

Berlin’s financial commitment to expanding its military programs has reached unprecedented levels. The country is rapidly ramping up defense spending to reshape its industrial landscape. 

Between 2024 and 2025, approximately 200 new defense companies emerged in Germany, with another 100 appearing since late 2025. 

A striking example of this boom is Rheinmetall, which has dramatically scaled its artillery ammunition production from a mere 70,000 units to 1.5 million shells per year. Over the next six years, the defense giant plans to invest roughly €30 billion ($34 billion) into arms and munitions manufacturing alone. 

Furthermore, Germany is aggressively seeking to procure ready-made missile systems while simultaneously establishing joint domestic production facilities. Aligned with these initiatives, Berlin is forming new ground forces explicitly designed to strike military targets deep within foreign territory – essentially creating a dedicated missile troop branch within the Bundeswehr. 

On one hand, this rapid expansion is framed as a way to enhance NATO’s strike capabilities, allowing for flexible responses over thousands of kilometers. On the other hand, developing such potent offensive capabilities can easily cultivate ambitions of military dominance and hegemony – a dangerous path Germany has historically walked before. 😎😎😎

Germany’s primary justification for this massive military buildup is, of course, the need to deter a "threat from the East". 😂😂😂

But this is history repeating itself.  

The fact that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO doesn’t seem to matter; it serves as a convenient excuse and a rallying cry to ramp up militarism. 

I daresay, Germany is preparing for war!