About 70% of Germans do not consider their army ready for a possible war

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, citing Ashtern weekly, the results of a survey show It shows that the vast majority of German citizens do not consider their army ready to defend themselves in the event of a future war. The bitter reality became and war broke out in Europe.

The results of this survey show that in almost two years since this milestone, the sense of security of Germans has apparently changed drastically. According to a poll commissioned by Germany’s RTL and NTV, 58 percent of German citizens believe that it is possible that Russia will attack a NATO country in the next few years, while only 38 percent of those The respondents still think that this is unthinkable.

Of course, opinions differ among supporters of different parties. While three in four supporters of the Green Party (74 percent) believe a Russian attack is realistic, only one in three supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (35 percent) believe in such a scenario – among supporters of the newly formed BSW-Sahara party. Wagenknecht, this figure is 42%.

Based on the results of this survey, Germans are more pessimistic about the defense ability of their armed forces. Only about a quarter of the surveyed people (27%) believe that if an attack occurs, the German army will be able to fight in the next 5 years. Weapons and military equipment In total, 68% of the participants in the survey doubt the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr. In this case, supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party AfD are particularly pessimistic: 84 percent of those surveyed in this group do not believe that the German army will be able to fight in the next five years.

1001 eligible German citizens were surveyed in this survey conducted by the Forsa Research Institute on February 16 and 19, 2024. According to the results of this survey, the majority in East Germany also believe that the attack Russia is imaginable as a NATO country. 51% of the residents of these areas have this opinion. 43% of East Germans do not think Russia will attack NATO. Among West Germans, 59 percent say that a Russian attack is possible.

The results of this poll explain why the vast majority of Germans are in favor of keeping military spending at a high level or even increasing it further. The results of a recent poll by Forsa Institute for Stern Weekly show that 46% of citizens agree to spend 2% of economic production on defense in the next few years. 35% even agree to further increase in costs. Only 17 percent support cutting the defense budget.

Last week, the German federal government was able to report adherence to the two percent target to NATO for the first time in several years. At the Munich Security Conference, Chancellor Olaf Schultz warned Germans that the Federal Republic would have to spend more money on defense in the long term, even after the special fund for the Bundeswehr ran out. He admitted: We have little money to spend on our security. But I also say: without security, everything is nothing. from various issues including social separation Accused of betraying the secrets of the German army