1. Focus had a piece this AM....suggesting that Putin is bringing in another 120,000 reservists by spring (trained and armed), for a major front attempt.
BS-factor? I'd give it a '4'. The Russian reality of boot-camp, and infantry school? About two weeks. I question if they have the rifles to hand the incoming crew. As for a new front attempt....you'd have to have a significant logistics capability, which Russian has proven over and over....they can't do it. Tank support? The numbers are not there because of the losses. Same issue going on for helicopters and artillery weapons.
Putin may think he's hustling up another 120k men and a front will be active....but it's mostly just an open pit to dump manpower into and lessen the economy.
2. Fairly negative feeling in Germany over today's World Cup game (against Spain). If they lose.....the Germans have one more game, but will likely come home after it.
If you compared World Cup 'fever' from four years ago to now (scale of 1 to 10)? I'd say this year....Germans are only up to around a '5'.
3. Odd protest out of Leipzig yesterday.....somewhere between 500 and 900 (differing opinions because several protest groups merged)....mostly against US military in Germany.
Yes, right-wing protests, with anti-American theme.
Cops were out in force (1,400 of them) to handle the protest action. Because of resistance and assault against the police.....a number of people were detained.
Counter-protest groups? Yeah, and that seemed make a fairly confusing day in Leipzig.
4. Regional gov't here in Hessen has evaluated the suggestion of Chinese police being stationed here in Frankfurt. So far, no facts to support the story.
I talked about this a month ago.....how the belief that a office exists in Frankfurt, under the Chinese government.....with police as part of the manpower. At least that was how the story goes.
BS? Maybe at some point, there might have been such a office, but obviously now....no, there is no office.
Odds of some undercover....secretive Chinese police unit in Germany? I just give it marginal odds. You'd have to go to a lot of trouble, and Germany does a decent job of monitoring who enters the country and for how long. Course, if you entered from elsewhere and just drove in.....you might get away with it.
5. Current German electrical cost per KwH? Around .40 Euro cents. This time last year? It was about .32 Euro cents. I should note...it was close to .56 cents going back three months ago.
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