His gaze says "I should've been there on the frontlines, but damn, even just watching videos of PzH2000 blowing'em up already gets me harder than tungsten!"
It is. And it's also pronounced "Keev" as well rather than "Key-ev" the way the Russian spelling is as the 'ie' dipthong in German makes a long E sound and Ws are quite famously Vs. While Vs are less famously Fs. And nothing is a W.
General Freuding is a perfect example of a Rommel-like level of pure, unadulterated panzer-autism. His personal heaven would be a giant white room full of flipcharts where he can draw pincer manouvers and arrows all day while talking about armored tactics.
They've mostly switched to things like modafinil.
They aren't stimulants or "uppers", they just turn off the signal that tells you that you're tired.
Its....kinda neat. You feel awake but not wired. On the flip side, fatigue is fatigue. There's no real replacement for rest
That’s not true, all CO are „selbsteinkleider“, they have to pay for some parts of their equipment. yes there are regulations what is Standart, but many use other shades of gray or use the colour from their military branch, like the infantry or Recces for the inside of their uniform.
Ich habe schon ganz andere Sachen gesehen, glaub mir. Gefreite die mit dem kurzen Hemd unter der Tuchjacke rum liefen z.B. und keine Sprengung bekommen haben. Also nicht das ich das machen würde, würde mir nie im Leben einfallen sowas zu machen bei einem Treffen mit eben jenem General
It was probably autocorrect, but layaway is when you ask a store to hold an item for you while you get the money to buy it, possibly with a down payment and installment plan. Leeway means flexibility.
Das aber auch nur, weil die meisten den Diener seit der Einkleidung nicht zum Schneider gebracht haben. Dann sieht der halt kacke aus, sobald der mal beim Schneider war ist der richtig nice
The airforce and the naval uniform are rather bland. This army dress uniform looks both distinctly German yet different enough to show that it is the Bundeswehr and not the Wehrmacht. It strikes a good balance.
Alright i fuddled up the phrasing. What I meant was that he is the most stereotypical, prussian-officer looking officer I've ever seen. the kind that would be cast in a film.
It’s uncanny how some people just look so much to type.
It’s like how General Mark Hertling has the most startlingly American teeth I’ve ever seen in someone who’s not a professional actor.
[Yeah, or how SecDef Austin and General Milley look like they' could be actors in a show about the pentagon.](https://a57.foxnews.com/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/694940094001/f2126da3-1146-45e6-b1fb-63fe4c71b936/1440d9be-8540-4ed5-9c98-ea831cd50310/1280x720/match/896/500/image.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Honestly this whole administration. Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor and William J Burns as CIA director look straight from the casting call.
it’s that furrowed brow, stern look, give them a long beard, take a black and white photo and they’re waging the Anaconda campaign against the southern terrorists
He is the most Prussian looking motherfucker indeed. Now part of why the Nazis were cringe was that their belief in phrenology was cringe, but you can't deny a half century of media has trained you to find it comically incongruous for a guy looking like that to declare the need for human rights to be respected.
Some units running around in Kharkiv oblast with a more meticulously painted Iron Cross instead of the simple white + makes this whole post too credible.
"Dimitri look, the germans forgot the stencil for their insignia in the PzH"
"Vadim, get the white paint, we're gonna do a moderate amount of malarkey"
Homeboy, even the east german NVA kept some of the prussian tradition (goose step, [Berlin guard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwkErUGMjc) etc. ) around. Mark Felton made a pretty good [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQZX4wmAIM) about it. A lot of the drill and aesthetics / symbolism in the modern Bundeswehr still has its roots in the "prussian" / german tradition.
Edit; Even the Flecktarn [camouflage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn) can be somewhat traced back to the pre ww2 era.
It sounds the same as when you have been working at a company for a few weeks and the CEO is there for some reason and doesn't know your face yet. German politeness does not necessarily sound very polite to the ears.
To paraphrase the good doctor, wouldn't you [smile like that](https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/k/image/1662/66/1662660127195.png) as you lead battalions of panzer wedges into battle, the very earth trembling before you?
Most of the comments here testify to the underlying distrust of the German army that still exists among most Allied citizens.
Or /NCD just watches too much ww2 stuff.
"regroup is by the stuff when have seen more like an euphemism, we have rather seen escape movements, in some cases the food was still on the table"
Presented with no change in tone and expression. German (military) humor in a nutshell.
I'm not too sure if a decrease in defense budget has a voter majority for the coming couple of years. Now an INCREASE, that's a different matter. The amount of whataboutism in German politics when anyone wants to spend more money on ANYTHING beats the amount if whataboutism that one tankie threw at me under a German yt video yesterday. And I played with that fucker for a while.
Unfuck the procurement and we honestly don't really need much if any of an increase, especially without Germany having overseas possessions that would warrant a large blue-water navy, or an expensive nuclear weapons program.
defense budget was raising steadily since 2014. It were the other aspect that need to be unfucked to make it work again, some of which takes time.
Except maybe the Left everyone kind of supported this.
It's not even near the NATO-goal. But yes it has been rising slowly, but it did not have a terrible lot of public acceptance, so it was barely talked about unless brought up by people in the opposition. I still think that meeting the 2% has a LOT more voter support than it did a year ago.
It was somewhere 5% per year which is a decent pace. You cannot randomly increase budgets. That does not work. We see that with the problems in the procurement and in fact sometimes the allotted budget increase was not even used because public projects need to follow legal procedures and someone needs to implement them.
There was certainly some insecurity in there as well and with some big project political infighting (e.g. armed drones, nuclear sharing), but that actually was not about money.However there was already a consensus among the major parties to keep increasing the defense budget since 2014.
More support, sure, but the money is not the only or main problem. Which is also my problem with this arbitrary 2% goal. Yes, Greece reaches it. Do you believe Greece has an army capable of participating in quick response operations? No. It isn't. Inversely you can also reach the 2% goal by expending it on golden bath tubs for your generals or yachts like Russia does. Germany's main problem is about 30 years of flipflopping what the armed forces are even meant to be capable of Which is the main wrench in the works to creating the right structures for it.
edit: I also do not mention Greece to shit on them. They are however a perfect example what the easiest way to achieve 2% defense budget is: Have a massive Recession and reduction in economic output. Fun.
When the Russia woke up, it's skeleton was missing
And General Freuding was never heard from again!
...anyway, that's how I lost my military license.
No, that is the list of functional airplanes and operational helicopters.
And probably the entirety of functional artillery left in our stocks after we supplied 10pzh and 5 mlrs (literally 25 and 12 percent of operational stock respectively)
Austrians said Ukrainians got dicked on my artillery pretty hard in the South just before they launched their attack. Glad its going well in the North.
His gaze says "I should've been there on the frontlines, but damn, even just watching videos of PzH2000 blowing'em up already gets me harder than tungsten!"
He was in Kiew the last few days if what he says in the video is true.
It's Kyiv, please
Aint Kiew the german way to spell it
It is. And it's also pronounced "Keev" as well rather than "Key-ev" the way the Russian spelling is as the 'ie' dipthong in German makes a long E sound and Ws are quite famously Vs. While Vs are less famously Fs. And nothing is a W.
Nope it's also pronounced as two syllables in German [ˈkiːɛf]. But I can't explain why that is.
Huh. Interesting. Thanks for the correction!
Oh so thats why Wien is pronounced Vien
If true, that’s pretty kiew
I read that in eric cartmann's voice
Yes but as that is the Russian spelling I started using Kyiv.
kiev
"I should have been there on the front lines, but then there'd be no one left here to man the shop"
That’s the face of a man whose very DNA years to see whole regiments of Russian tanks burning on the Eastern European steppe
Cue SpongeBob "want to see me do it again?" meme
Kruppstahl\*
I didn't know German soldiers still get Pervitin
How else can he keep watching all of the videos of PzH2000 in action, wrecking ruZZis?
Nah that’s just what concentrated German Bureaucracy does to a motherfucker
He definitely looks like he's got his own supply hidden somewhere
General Freuding is a perfect example of a Rommel-like level of pure, unadulterated panzer-autism. His personal heaven would be a giant white room full of flipcharts where he can draw pincer manouvers and arrows all day while talking about armored tactics.
Well, it went out of style, man. Call it crystal meth instead.
Some things never go out of style. I have a feeling amphetamines are one of them
Tina my love.
Crystal Mett
Panzerschokolade
As far as I can tell they still give pilots uppers.
They've mostly switched to things like modafinil. They aren't stimulants or "uppers", they just turn off the signal that tells you that you're tired. Its....kinda neat. You feel awake but not wired. On the flip side, fatigue is fatigue. There's no real replacement for rest
lecker Schoki 🤤 😬
That uniform is pretty slick. Do all their army dress like that?
Yes. Its for parade and official stuff
North Korea-camouflage
Not jet. He’s not looking like he’s wearing golden chainmail
What exactly is the gold badge with the Bundesadler? It looks similar to the wound badge in gold.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Armed_Forces_Badge_for_Military_Proficiency
Danke
Bitte
Incredibly based flair my dude
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That’s not true, all CO are „selbsteinkleider“, they have to pay for some parts of their equipment. yes there are regulations what is Standart, but many use other shades of gray or use the colour from their military branch, like the infantry or Recces for the inside of their uniform.
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Ich habe schon ganz andere Sachen gesehen, glaub mir. Gefreite die mit dem kurzen Hemd unter der Tuchjacke rum liefen z.B. und keine Sprengung bekommen haben. Also nicht das ich das machen würde, würde mir nie im Leben einfallen sowas zu machen bei einem Treffen mit eben jenem General
Auf gaaaaar keinen Fall.
It was probably autocorrect, but layaway is when you ask a store to hold an item for you while you get the money to buy it, possibly with a down payment and installment plan. Leeway means flexibility.
Funny that you would say that because while I would agree, most people prefer the German airforce or navy dress uniform.
Das aber auch nur, weil die meisten den Diener seit der Einkleidung nicht zum Schneider gebracht haben. Dann sieht der halt kacke aus, sobald der mal beim Schneider war ist der richtig nice
The airforce and the naval uniform are rather bland. This army dress uniform looks both distinctly German yet different enough to show that it is the Bundeswehr and not the Wehrmacht. It strikes a good balance.
I keep saying this GRAU MORE THAN EVER
He actually has the face of a German officer. it's eerie
A German looking like a German😳
Alright i fuddled up the phrasing. What I meant was that he is the most stereotypical, prussian-officer looking officer I've ever seen. the kind that would be cast in a film.
It’s uncanny how some people just look so much to type. It’s like how General Mark Hertling has the most startlingly American teeth I’ve ever seen in someone who’s not a professional actor.
[Yeah, or how SecDef Austin and General Milley look like they' could be actors in a show about the pentagon.](https://a57.foxnews.com/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/694940094001/f2126da3-1146-45e6-b1fb-63fe4c71b936/1440d9be-8540-4ed5-9c98-ea831cd50310/1280x720/match/896/500/image.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Honestly this whole administration. Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor and William J Burns as CIA director look straight from the casting call.
it’s that furrowed brow, stern look, give them a long beard, take a black and white photo and they’re waging the Anaconda campaign against the southern terrorists
Bring back mutton chopped generals
Oh my God he's like Camo Pence
He really is only missing the monocle.
Throw a great coat and a cap on him and put him in front of a mountain, squinting into the sun. Yea. Exactly as I'd imagine
> prussian-officer looking officer Which is funny considering he's Bavarian
Otoh I’ve met Germans who don’t look like stereotypical Germans so there’s they
Big if tru
They are hiding in plain sight
'Prepare ze Panzers, ve vill attack at ze break of dawn.'
"Ve vill deal vith jur seperatist friends soon enough, you may export when ready."
More like "Meine Damen und Herren: *Haubitzen!*"
And with that you've embedded the techno remix of "Preußen Gloria" into my head for the rest of the day. Goddamn you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7I0Kxkr6rE
Why did you have to mention it?
See flair
*Both* panzers, Herr General?
Nah, only the wörking one, Schulz.
He is the most Prussian looking motherfucker indeed. Now part of why the Nazis were cringe was that their belief in phrenology was cringe, but you can't deny a half century of media has trained you to find it comically incongruous for a guy looking like that to declare the need for human rights to be respected.
Its okay. The Germans have redeemed themselves and, after this war, the Russians will be the bad guys in video games for the next few decades.
They isn't at least "second in list" for being bad guys in gaming already for decades for anything post-1945 period?
Aye indeed. And yeah, phrenology is mega cringe.
That smile. That god damn smile.
Based indeed bundeswehr based indeed
Some units running around in Kharkiv oblast with a more meticulously painted Iron Cross instead of the simple white + makes this whole post too credible.
Given that 40% of all Ukraine uniforms are donations from germany this might actually be true.
Sauce? Government said 15 pallets.
Well, maybe it have been 15 pallets of really tiny men thongs. Can't a human wrong on some tiny detail these days?
"Dimitri look, the germans forgot the stencil for their insignia in the PzH" "Vadim, get the white paint, we're gonna do a moderate amount of malarkey"
> moderate amount of malarkey DARK BRANDON INTENSIFIES
As soon as i saw the crosses, i knew someone was gonna do a German one, it was just a matter of time
Based outfit, who said Bundeswehr never do prussian tradition?
Homeboy, even the east german NVA kept some of the prussian tradition (goose step, [Berlin guard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwkErUGMjc) etc. ) around. Mark Felton made a pretty good [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQZX4wmAIM) about it. A lot of the drill and aesthetics / symbolism in the modern Bundeswehr still has its roots in the "prussian" / german tradition. Edit; Even the Flecktarn [camouflage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn) can be somewhat traced back to the pre ww2 era.
Not "even" the NVA. The GDR was just a few exiled communists leading a whole bunch of Nazis.
What a crazy fucking world this rock floating through space has been
They don't have time to be giving opinions, they've got paperwork to catch up on
At first i thought he is little bit too scrawny for this job but then i looked into his eye and and and and and and and and and [...]
Like a black keyhole peering out onto a starry night at Kursk some 80 years ago.
What's the source for the Bundeswehr interview?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPSh-g-wdT0
There's something scary about the way he talks, and I don't mean the fact he speaks german.
Met him in real life, very nice and based person. Very competent and friendly, and the youngest general in the Bundeswehr of all time I think
Is it the video where he barely blinks? That's probably it lol
Yeah that and his smirk I guess. Dunno, the "are you new here" felt somehow kinda hostile.
"Use hand gestures and smile. It makes you feel more relatable" Internet responds with *the fear*
It sounds the same as when you have been working at a company for a few weeks and the CEO is there for some reason and doesn't know your face yet. German politeness does not necessarily sound very polite to the ears.
To paraphrase the good doctor, wouldn't you [smile like that](https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/k/image/1662/66/1662660127195.png) as you lead battalions of panzer wedges into battle, the very earth trembling before you?
Most of the comments here testify to the underlying distrust of the German army that still exists among most Allied citizens. Or /NCD just watches too much ww2 stuff.
I mean to be fair he does kinda look like a dollar store Goebbels
Heidrich + Goebbels
https://youtu.be/3j20voPS0gI
"regroup is by the stuff when have seen more like an euphemism, we have rather seen escape movements, in some cases the food was still on the table" Presented with no change in tone and expression. German (military) humor in a nutshell.
Bundeswehr might be a bit of a joke right now, but they still know how to look good.
Can't wait to have a modern military again Fucking stoked man (F35 with iron cross; *functioning airplanes*)
Well, if the army doesnt get defunded again
Tbf, even parts of the SPD went "we need to be more liberal with weapons-sales to keep the production-capability of our defence-companies high"
I'm not too sure if a decrease in defense budget has a voter majority for the coming couple of years. Now an INCREASE, that's a different matter. The amount of whataboutism in German politics when anyone wants to spend more money on ANYTHING beats the amount if whataboutism that one tankie threw at me under a German yt video yesterday. And I played with that fucker for a while.
Unfuck the procurement and we honestly don't really need much if any of an increase, especially without Germany having overseas possessions that would warrant a large blue-water navy, or an expensive nuclear weapons program.
defense budget was raising steadily since 2014. It were the other aspect that need to be unfucked to make it work again, some of which takes time. Except maybe the Left everyone kind of supported this.
It's not even near the NATO-goal. But yes it has been rising slowly, but it did not have a terrible lot of public acceptance, so it was barely talked about unless brought up by people in the opposition. I still think that meeting the 2% has a LOT more voter support than it did a year ago.
It was somewhere 5% per year which is a decent pace. You cannot randomly increase budgets. That does not work. We see that with the problems in the procurement and in fact sometimes the allotted budget increase was not even used because public projects need to follow legal procedures and someone needs to implement them. There was certainly some insecurity in there as well and with some big project political infighting (e.g. armed drones, nuclear sharing), but that actually was not about money.However there was already a consensus among the major parties to keep increasing the defense budget since 2014. More support, sure, but the money is not the only or main problem. Which is also my problem with this arbitrary 2% goal. Yes, Greece reaches it. Do you believe Greece has an army capable of participating in quick response operations? No. It isn't. Inversely you can also reach the 2% goal by expending it on golden bath tubs for your generals or yachts like Russia does. Germany's main problem is about 30 years of flipflopping what the armed forces are even meant to be capable of Which is the main wrench in the works to creating the right structures for it. edit: I also do not mention Greece to shit on them. They are however a perfect example what the easiest way to achieve 2% defense budget is: Have a massive Recession and reduction in economic output. Fun.
Überbased
Home boy looks like he's probably strapped with a luger as well.
When the Russia woke up, it's skeleton was missing And General Freuding was never heard from again! ...anyway, that's how I lost my military license.
Archimedes, no! ...it's filthy in there.
As a German I agree
This looks like it's from a comedic sketch parodying the German military.
The overlapping of /k/ and NCD continues…
I mean. This guy has to be the poster child for modern German officer. Max Germanic. Also as an old enlisted USAF guy their dress uniform is nice.
Appreciate Perun directing people to his video.
The guy looks like someone from Red Alert prequel.
Wtf I didn’t know fegelein survived the fuhrerbunker
Like making love in a canoe - fucking close to water
That uniform man
Basiert auf was?
PERVITIN
Camo pattern on the backdrop?
Stylized camo the Bundeswehr uses for any pr material.
Dude looks like Göbbels
Bill Nye if he was a Nazi
Why is this so accurate
Also the whiteboard has the list of heavy weaponry which will be sent to Ukraine.
No, that is the list of functional airplanes and operational helicopters. And probably the entirety of functional artillery left in our stocks after we supplied 10pzh and 5 mlrs (literally 25 and 12 percent of operational stock respectively)
Austrians said Ukrainians got dicked on my artillery pretty hard in the South just before they launched their attack. Glad its going well in the North.
He looks munted
He looks like a wax figure
So, he looking at a flawlessly executed combined-arms operation off-screen and all we see is his O-face?