1. I sat and watched a piece on N-TV (German commercial news) this AM. The hype? Russia has apparently decided that the conscripts in Ukraine....need entertainment....so singers, circus folks, and movie actors are being dispatched to bring 'cheer' to the conscripts there.
Just about every location where the Russian conscripts are located....is on the front-lines, so it's hard to see the eagerness of the visiting crowd, or how they got 'volunteered' into this.
2. The Germans took the 'PUMA' military vehicle into a recent NATO exercise. It's been around for 7 years and what I'd describe as a light-armor vehicle. Each one cost around 17-million Euro. 350 of the first series were built/delivered by the end of 2021. There's supposed to be a second series coming....in the 200 range..
Well....in this NATO exercise, the 18 vehicles used....were down for most of the exercise.
Lot of questions popping up over them and their operational ability.
3. Some CSU Party folks finally put this item out there....that from all these natural gas reserves that the gov't chats about.....'some' aren't really German gov't owned, and the real amount....isn't a public information type item. So, in simple terms....the political opposition was asking....define the actual amount of natural gas that the gov't holds.
This might be shocking news? Maybe....maybe not. But it's odd that this information comes out mid-way in December.
The bulk of the reserves might be commercially held? It's possible, but you'd have to get get the gov't to admit some things.
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