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.
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.