Comments by "Univeropa" (@univeropa3363) on "100 billion euros for Germany's armed forces: Why hardly anything has arrived so far | DW News" video.

  1. This is precisely why last year I thought that Scholz was puffing out hot air when he announced his "Zeitenwende". It was nothing but posturing to please the crowd in the moment. By the way, this isn't a new realisation. Procurement problems have been discussed for years, but the wheels of bureaucracy and corruption turn slowly, no matter what the blowhard tries to sell you. I remember it clearly how precisely this issue was raised during the Trump years when we were being told that Germany would have to insure her own security, because the US couldn't be trusted under Trump. (Oh the irony, seeing as it was under Biden that the US actually attacked our energy infrastructure) Frankly, it's also not just procurement. The Ukraine war has blatantly demonstrated that industrial warfare didn't vanish into the annals of history and that the quantity of weapons and ammunition is crucial. Our defence industry is completely incapable of delivering the goods Germany would need to defend itself in a peer conflict (not that any is on the horizon, no matter how much the media and politicians try to create the Russian boogieman). Lastly, lol at calling Afghanistan a reconstruction mission. Sure, sure. We constructed a house of cards, not a state.
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