Thursday, August 17, 2023

Four German News Stories: 18 August 2023

 1.  Weather folks now say that storm from Wed night.....generated around 25,000 lightning bolts in the region.....more than what would be normal for the region....in a normal year. I would guess in my village....at least 20 'hits' (homes/trees).

2.  Focus had a piece over a German mother who apparently was all hyped-up to travel to Costa Rica for summer vacation.  Her son was fairly determined.....no Costa Rica trip....because of the C02 damage from flying there from Germany. I would imagine across Germany....there's probably 500 kids like this now.

3.  Lithuania has shut down two border crossing to Belarus....pushing tensions up a notch.

4. The German desire to spend 2-percent of GDP on the military budget?  There's commentary that they might reach it presently, but it won't be a long-term goal of the SPD-coalition.  

This NATO-push?  It's been lingering for a decade now.....even Chancellor Merkel objected to the 2-percent number. 

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