1. The odds of the coalition government having the votes to pass mandated vaxing for all Germans?
Well....I noticed in Welt (the newspaper) some chatter over this, and it's obvious now that the votes aren't there from the SPD-Green-FDP coalition government. Unless the Linke Party, or the CDU-CSU folks vote agreement....this whole fuss over mandating vaccinations will falter.
However....come the middle of March....the mandate for the medical/caretaker professions will occur (already passed), and we will get a chance to see people cooperate, or leave their profession.
2. What's this 'hybrid-war' expression being tossed around in the German media over Russia and the Ukraine?
'Hybrid-war' simply means that it's being viewed (if it occurs) as something less than a regular war. I'm guessing that some US Army strategists are sitting there....sipping a beer, and thinking....'war' is 'war'.
To make this simple...hybrid war gets down to a point where conventional ideas over warfare dwindle. Things are more 'scripted'.
You end up with tactics that you'd normally only discuss in the classroom.
You have meetings continually discussing peace or diplomacy.....where a thousand man-hours of talks achieve only eight lines of text.
You have politicians talking constantly with news media or social media players....little sense is made but some gal gets 300k 'likes' in one hour.
You have terror group 'A' doing these acts, while terror group 'B' is countering those acts....then waking up to find that one single person/group funds terror group 'A' and 'B'.
Finally, you wake up to realize that some mafia gangs/clans....are a bigger participant than the actual Army or terror groups themselves.
3. What is the smokes tax in Germany currently at?
As of mid-summer 2021....the tax on a pack of smokes is 3.30 Euro (with escalation set for 2022 and 2023.....ten cents per year).
For reference, the Dutch tax per pack, is 4.83 Euro.
4. Do German nurses who work for private clinics have an exemption from the mandated vaccination rule created for medical/care-taker people?
Yes.....this kinda came out in the past week. And yes, there is some discussion over the idea of forcing the private contract nurses to vax-up.
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