Lets just point out re #Zeitenwende that apart from the very low bar of trying to clothe our soldiers a little bit earlier and provide them with body armor, not a single relevant contract has been signed yet. Not. One. That includes F-35, CH-53 replacement, more IFV etc.
Mind you these things normally take time, sure. It's been less than two months since the big announcements. But key issue is, none of these procurements are new either. They were all as inevitable as Thanos long before a professed realisation that something needs to change.
Which leaves us with those 100 bln. Again, the figure didnt come out of nowhere. It was based on all procurements Bundeswehr over the last decade or so accumulated. So if one Euro out of that budget is going somewhere not the military, again you have to wonder as to the point.
So if you're asking now "Alex, whats your bloody point."...well it is we are still at the beginning of a promised process, no significant budget has been committed yet. Until it is, I consider any promises made worth about as much as A4 fax compliant paper they are written on.
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