🇩🇪🪖 Germany's Zeitenwende never started.

In the first days of last March, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the epochal "turning point" which would have brought about an epochal change in the investments envisaged for the German Defense by putting on the table 100 billion euros to invest and as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. An authentic revolution given the semi-catastrophic conditions of the Bundeswehr which in the years of Merkel, and due to the end of the Cold War, underwent a heavy downsizing starting from the mechanized forces brought to a negligible amount compared to the colossal numbers of the period which saw the division of the two Germanys. A Bundeswehr that has moved on to having 5,000 Leopard 1 and 2 tanks to the current few hundred that cannot contribute effectively to the Ukrainian cause, not to mention the embarrassments that the Bundeswehr soldiers were forced to suffer during joint NATO exercises given the shortcomings of German Armed Forces. An inconceivable situation for Europe's main economic force which however did not involve the minds of public opinion and the political class which continued to rely on military security with stars and stripes, despite flirting with Russia, and unable to predict the return of conventional warfare to Europe. A type of public opinion accustomed to an extremely long period of peace and to be "re-educated" to strategic muscle and military dossiers. Despite the political forces before the conflict tending to be pacifist and not inclined to rearmament such as the Grünen embraced the cause, the promise of the Zeitenwende struggled to take off concretely. Announcements about the modernization of the Luftwaffe with the purchase of 35 functional F-35s to replace the old Tornadoes, or the intentions of negotiating Iron Dome or Arrow 3 anti-missile systems with Israel, remain pending or too distant in time. In 2023, German military spending remained unchanged at €50 billion, well below the NATO standard of 2%.

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