Q-and-A

 1.  What happens when some European country (within NATO) hands fighter jets to Ukraine?

First, lets be clear....there just aren't going to be that many Ukrainian pilots around who might be able to step in, with say 40 man-hours of orientation training, and fly these fighter jets (say the F-16 for example).

Second, Russian will absolutely make the targeting of such jets....either in the air or via a parking ramp, a top priority target.  If it takes ten attempts....fine.  So I seriously doubt that ten of such jets...last more than a week.

Third, as much Russia might BS people, I doubt that they have more than a hundred pilots that might meet the qualifications capability of a two-thousand NATO pilots presently.  So using them...to go after the donated jets....might not be that smart.  You could end up with a quarter of these qualified Russian pilots shot-down, and captured.

2.  On this murder of the 12-year old kid in NW Germany, by two of her friends (age 12/13)....have they found the knife?

No, and that's one serious part of the story left untold.  The two guilty parties ditched the knife...somewhere.

3.  How much crap is Germany giving France over the plan to build more nuclear power plants?

A lot.  Macon is not going to be pushed around.  So the wish and desire for Germany to have a nuclear-free zone in Europe....is a joke.

4.  Is there some kind of hydration-cult now existing in Germany?

Well....WELT brought it up and I won't disagree with it.  You see an awful lot of Germans who walk around on train platforms, shopping areas, etc....with a water container. 

At least once a month on some health 'chatter', you will see or hear the reference....'Sie müssen zwei Liter Wasser pro Tag trinken' (you need to drink 2 liters of water per day).

In the fitness center I go to twice a week....I probably see a quarter of crowd lugging around a half-liter container and hydrating about every 15 minutes.  I stood in some store the other day, and here was a sports-type 'jug' (2-liter size) near the check-out stand. 

Some Germans are taking this serious.  Some take it as a joke. 

You need to drink 6 glasses generally....of liquids per day (juice, coffee, tea, water).  I would agree, if you were awful active, and it was a warm day....2 liters  make sense.  It's just that some Germans now seem to hydrate around the clock now....on buses, while waiting for the train, etc.  That's the part that just seems out of place.

5.  Is there some push-back going on with the pronoun-gender stuff?

Yes....you can use Baden-Wurttemberg as an example.  They are trying to get a referendum up...for the public to vote on....to deny changed gender chatter.  

I'll just say that for about 50-percent of the public....they can't make sense of the need to change the German language for gender situations.  

6.  Is there a problem brewing with the sixteen German states, and the refugee business?

You have to qualify this.  The states aren't saying end acceptance....they are saying that you have x-amount that require housing, language training, and welfare payments, then you need y-amount of money flowing into the system.  

Who is the controller of the funding?  Well....the German federal government.

You would think that back in 2014/2015....the federal guys would have sat there...grasped the total financial impact, and rigged up a credit account where you know of half-a-million people in this status, and they cost you x-amount per month to finance.  Yet, this doesn't seem apparent.

A couple of the states have stood up and said....that's it.  If you can't finance us more, we won't accept anymore.