1. Someone brought this up....that the coalition in Germany (SPD-Green-FDP) was mostly going to ease people out of Covid, square the economical chaos, and do great things for the environment.
With the 'Putin-War'....they have to modify their brand/message, or fail in a miserable way.
2. Some irrational chief of the ISS space station operation said in a public statement that maybe he'd issue orders to close it down, and send the station down over Europe/US.
Just a huge number of irrational and dumb comments being made. This would trigger a lot of people to just edge out of space station relations with the Russians.
3. Defense budget in Germany going up?
Well....what is said is that the German army is NOT ready for war (maybe going back almost 30 years). So the FDP wants to escalate the budget....meaning some environmental projects won't be funded. The SPD has a couple of folks fighting this increased military budget business.
4. At the end of this Russian 'war'.....there will end up being Russian National Guardsmen for years. A state of occupation? Just like Afghanistan turned into?
5. Whatever energy plan that the coalition had for the election period last year....is crapped out, with the 'Putin-War'.
6. N-TV says this morning....that based on 'action'.....there just aren't a lot of the 150,000 Russian troops being used in the invasion.
True or false? Unknown. Maybe there were never 150,000 troops on the border (anyone's guess what the actual number was to start with).
7. Twitter and Facebook stopped pro-Russia ad's.
8. There was a piece today off N-TV discussing Chinese private commentary to the Russians. It seems like the Chinese are asking where exactly this is leading off to, and maybe the original intent is different from what they see today. Expansion of NATO is still seen as a bad thing to the Chinese.
9. NATO's fast-reaction-force is being sent out. Bundeswehr orders? Report to Slovakia.
10. UEFA (the European soccer league folks) wants GAZPROM (Russian natural gas company) off their sponsor list.
11. Former Chancellor Merkel robbed? Well....what's said is that she went with bodyguards to a Berlin supermarket, and some guy stole her wallet. Likely to be turned into a joke but she should have dragged her husband along for 'real' protection.
12. German federal Health Minister calling for drastic reduction in meat consumption?
Yeah, and he was careful not to suggest more taxes. I'm guessing some massive government PR-campaign will occur. If you did the analysis from the 1970s to now....it's about 10-percent less meat consumed overall.
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