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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by groby_b on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:03PM (#27612204)
That's ignoring the Free Corps, though. There was a lot of staffing up via paramilitaries. (Sort of like piling all your armies into Australia in Risk ;)

And I think it's worth calling out that Britain and France deliberately slowed down as a result of appeasement policies, not because they missed that Germany was rearming. That's what I meant in the GP post when I said "people willing to stand by and ignore obviously bad actors"

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Re:Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 ... by azernik on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:00AM (#27613844)
The Freikorps were not a useful force for conflict with peer states. The long-lead-time rearmament that Germany started early was gearing up industry and producing equipment. The Weimar efforts at deniable weapons development was nowhere near the open military work of Britain or France.
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