alright, I’ll say it, this has to be either an accident or one or a couple powerful people shitposting. Something as impactful as the quantity of produced vehicles - which is never arbitrary, it’s always driven by budget, time constraints, floor space, or some other factor - would be pretty unwise to use as a dogwhistle. Even if they are dogwhistling here… to whom? Why? It’s not like this recruits anyone.

Ukraine and Germany are crawling with Nazis ofc but using something like a quantity of tanks to advertise that fact seems… unlikely. The positives of doing this are nothing as far as I can tell, and the negatives are, well, being compellingly tied to nazis when they’re already fighting that propaganda battle. In fact, 14 words is an English phrase, and this is a German-speaking country dealing with a Ukrainian-speaking country; there’s no guarantee that the translation is even 14 words long.

I’m losing what little is left of my mind.

Wow it’s real…real subtle there Germany. :honk-enraged: ARMING FUCKING NAZIS

“German-made tanks will face off against Russian tanks in Ukraine once more,” he said, adding that this was “not an easy thought” for Germany, which takes its responsibility for the horrors of World War II seriously.