I believe it’s that radical muslims have injured and killed people at the Christmas markets in acts of terrorism. The meme is that now they could use a flying car, so the markets will need air defense systems, which is the military vehicles in the picture.
It's not just radical muslims. The attack that has prompted the biggest reaction this far in Germany took place in 2024 and was committed by a Saudi who was a militant critic of islam. For him, it was apparently about the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany. Now, regardless of what you think about that cause, of course the attack was in no way justified. But it wasn't religiously motivated and wasn't even classified as an act of terrorism since there was no terrorist organisation behind it.
Anyway, it's as a reaction to cases like this one (but particularly this one) that now, obstacles are put up where the market meets the road. Those are either made of concrete or filled with sand in order to stop cars.
But if cars could reasonably fly like that, you'd need air defenses to stop them reliably.
The 2024 christmas market attack wasn't islamic terrorism, but the ones in 2016 (Berlin) and 2018 (Strasbourg, France) were. The 2016 one is the "original" one and is much more remembered by people in Europe. 2/3 so christmas markets definitely are inherently connected to Islamic terrorism. Absolutely vile to do it on christmas specifically...
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u/ToeCapital927 5h ago
I don’t get it.