1. This week, the German public TV network....ARD....ran their 'Kontraste' program, and the documentary piece (16 minutes) covers crack epidemic going on in Germany. You can view the piece here.
Pretty blunt, descriptive, and worth viewing.
If you haven't been around metropolitan regions of Germany in a decade....things have kinda changed. It doesn't matter if you walk about Frankfurt, Berlin or Hamburg....drugs are a certain part of the culture now.
2. What's the Arrow-3 defense system about?
The Germans bought a defensive missile system from Israel. Better than the Patriot system? Well.....they say Arrow-3 can handle up to 500 km situations....which is not what the Patriot is capable of. A Russian-measure? Yeah, I'd say that.
3. That two-percent of GDP NATO spending measure that was written in German law, that neither Merkel or Scholz was capable of reaching?
It was quietly edited out of federal law in the past week.
Whether or not this becomes an issue in the future? Unknown. With various 'sudden' problems that pop up....they simply don't have the money laying around to conduct this type of spending.
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