... while the Russian army is on the rampage.
I wonder why.
Bonus Tweet
REPROTER: "Targeting the Russian energy industry is totally off the table? Is that what you are saying, Daleep?"
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 24, 2022
SINGH: "What I'm saying is that our measures were not designed to disrupt, in any way, the current flow of energy from Russia to the world." pic.twitter.com/eo6jt5mcD1
I suspect that, while the German army may not be what it should be[1], this was primarily a case of the head of the army seizing the opportunity to get his budget increased.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to have worked:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/europe-germany-defense-russia-ukraine/
[1] In the past, I distinctly remember Germany being discouraged from having much of an army, because a heavily-armed Germany still made all their neighbors nervous. As Tom Lehrer sarcastically put it, "Once all the Germans were warlike, and mean, but that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they've hardly bothered us since then!"