N-TV carried a short piece this morning and talked over this one subject....the SPD Party having a position drawn to establish Germany as a no-nukes country. The meaning of this?
There's a fighter purchase plan being thrown around....to get US-made fighters. So the chatter is that you would need them....if you had tactical nukes around. So the SPD 'chatter' is that they want a new policy....no nukes on German soil.
Agreeable within the coalition? No. The CDU/CSU has said this won't work with them, and the FDP has suggested the same thing. Also, it's not one-hundred percent within the SPD on folks agreeing with this. No one says the SPD numbers but you get the impression that ten to twenty percent of them aren't that happy with the whole talk.
So you step back and look at the landscape.
Why the deal for US fighters (the F-18)? Why not go to Airbus and procure more of the Euro-fighters that they manufacture? Well....the next model that Airbus is talking about....isn't arriving until 2035 at the earliest. The F-18 models could start flowing in the next two years.
The no-nukes strategy? Around thirty years ago, this was the chief strategy of the Green Party. If you walked around and tried to gauge interest....with the bulk of society, it doesn't rate in the top 100 problems. But if you were a fairly liberal voter who stood mostly with the Green Party, it's the SPD desire to get them to return to the SPD.
Finally, lets get humble here and talk about any real threat to German society. The people you buy the bulk of your natural gas for winter heating....the Russians. Do you really think that they want any threat dissolving their profit situation?
Some folks might try to make this a big public forum subject, but I would imagine the vast majority of Germans would flip the channel over to some turtle documentary, travel show over Greek islands, or a reality show with German transsexuals dating regular Austrian transvestites.
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