We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
German CDU politician warns: German troops can “last a maximum of two days in a battle”
The Bundeswehr's special fund was supposed to take care of it: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wanted to make the troops fit for military service again with 100 billion euros.
Scholz even spoke of a “turning point” in February 2022.
However, CDU deputy Johann Wadephul now says “decisive troop units can last a maximum of two days in a battle”.
According to CDU defense politician, the catastrophic condition of the Bundeswehr has two reasons.
On the one hand, Germany continues to deliver weapons to Ukraine, but the ordered supplies for its own ammunition and weapons stocks do not reach the troops:
“Even when it comes to purchasing replacements, the Bundeswehr is actually making a loss,” says Wadephul.
In the current security policy situation, it is unacceptable that “there is no compensation” for the weapons delivered to Ukraine.
On the other hand, the restructuring of the Bundeswehr planned by the federal government was stuck in its early stages.
Wadephul says he sees “big announcements” but “little actual measures that contribute to the war capability that the defense minister himself claims.”
“I see a Bundeswehr that still carries out its procurement processes just as carefully, cautiously and sometimes - I think - with fear as it has in the last 20 years,” he said.
Wadephul also doubts that Germany will be able to put together its own combat-ready division for NATO by 2025, as originally promised.
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
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My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
