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15 | 3.71% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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StashAugustine posted:Real tanks have slopes Abrams got some hustle in it's bustle fizzy posted:debillionaize What kind of dumb french food is this Dokapon Findom posted:Elon Musk: greatest man ever? 2nd greatest behind you know who
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Ardennes posted:The guy deserves a tug.
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Sep 10, 2023 05:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:Meltdown Will now weighing in on something else besides The Economy European Metropolis
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Sep 10, 2023 05:30
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gradenko_2000 posted:Meltdown Will now weighing in on something else besides The Economy Why does it have to be a European metropolis, Will
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Sep 10, 2023 05:30
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https://twitter.com/Danylo1942/status/1699905387649233065?t=HjLR9rqKaoIfUIwy-AiY7Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/Danylo1942/status/1700662935197007906?t=7eCyNlw87XRNPuyWxVPnOA&s=19
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Sep 10, 2023 06:01
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Some Guy TT posted:who are these former antisemites and why did they change their minds about jews being evil knowing its not a serious question but: a few years ago i did some browsing on the big nazi forums, they're mostly alright with jews now that they're out of europe. They definitely do the whole "jews run the banking industry" thing but generally they've mostly switched to "now that they're out of here and mainly killing arabs they're alright with me"
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Sep 10, 2023 06:03
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oh so you think cars SHOULD be killing the maximum amount of bugs then?
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Sep 10, 2023 06:08
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fanfic insert posted:knowing its not a serious question but: a few years ago i did some browsing on the big nazi forums, ah
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Sep 10, 2023 06:22
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fanfic insert posted:knowing its not a serious question but: a few years ago i did some browsing on the big nazi forums, they're mostly alright with jews now that they're out of europe. They definitely do the whole "jews run the banking industry" thing but generally they've mostly switched to "now that they're out of here and mainly killing arabs they're alright with me" Partyplane Jones, hello
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Sep 10, 2023 06:27
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To be fair, a lot of C-SPAM goons used to read D&D
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Sep 10, 2023 06:27
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fanfic insert posted:oh so you think cars SHOULD be killing the maximum amount of bugs then? yep
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Sep 10, 2023 06:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:Partyplane Jones, hello i was just browsing out of curiosity, not participating 
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Sep 10, 2023 06:35
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Chamale posted:To be fair, a lot of C-SPAM goons used to read D&D I've already apologized for this
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Sep 10, 2023 06:46
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Just to jinx everything, but it is has been a minute since the last SAD blowup. It really seemed like the last one was pretty far reaching in its results.
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Sep 10, 2023 07:04
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Ardennes posted:Just to jinx everything, but it is has been a minute since the last SAD blowup. It really seemed like the last one was pretty far reaching in its results. if theres a meltdown Im going all in on tai, last time i looked in lepers like last week?? he was doing some insanely epic post still
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Sep 10, 2023 07:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Danylo1942/status/1699905387649233065?t=HjLR9rqKaoIfUIwy-AiY7Q&s=19 the idea of western left-ish progressives asking ukrainians how they see their path to victory against imperialism as an oppressed minority people and getting "well you see, there was this great thinker named Adolf Hitler" as an answer is never not going to be funny.
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Sep 10, 2023 07:14
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fanfic insert posted:i was just browsing out of curiosity, not participating nice try, fahnenfick einzert 
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Sep 10, 2023 07:20
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Scheisse!
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Sep 10, 2023 07:23
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January 6 Survivor posted:the idea of western left-ish progressives asking ukrainians how they see their path to victory against imperialism as an oppressed minority people and getting "well you see, there was this great thinker named Adolf Hitler" as an answer is never not going to be funny. you know it's not gonna take very long until the libs pivot to "well you gotta listen to ukrainian voices so who's to say if barbarossa was good or bad?"
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Sep 10, 2023 07:41
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fizzy posted:Good news for people who like the four seasons - After the Spring Counteroffensive and the Summer Counteroffensive, comes the Autumn Strengthening Time. Even more good news for people who like the four season - After the Spring Counteroffensive, the Summer Counteroffensive, and the Autumn Strengthening Time, comes the Winter Continued Counteroffensive. Ukraine's counteroffensive to continue after onset of bad weather, spy chief says By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth September 9, 2023 7:05 PM UTC · Updated 32 min ago KYIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue through the onset of cold and wet weather later this year, even though it would become harder to fight, Kyiv's intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said on Saturday. Ukraine launched a much-vaunted counteroffensive this summer that has retaken more than a dozen villages in the south and east over three months, but has been complicated by vast minefields and heavily entrenched Russian forces. "Combat actions will continue in one way or another. In the cold, wet and mud, it is more difficult to fight. Fighting will continue. The counteroffensive will continue," Budanov said. The comments, made at a conference in Kyiv hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, offer the strongest indication to date that Ukraine does not plan to halt its push when the weather turns later this year. The West supplied billions of dollars of military equipment and trained up thousands of Ukrainian fighters for the counteroffensive to help Kyiv try to regain territory. But the slow progress of the counteroffensive has sparked concerns among Kyiv's supporters that the West could struggle to maintain the scale of military aid to keep Ukraine battling on at the same intensity. Vadym Skibytskyi, an official from Ukraine's military spy agency, said earlier on Saturday that Russia currently had 420,000 servicemen inside Ukraine. The push in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, now centred around the villages of Robotyne and Verbove, is seen as a crucial part of an operation that seeks to split Russia's occupying forces in half in the south, but remains far from that goal. "Our counteroffensive is happening in several directions," Budanov said, acknowledging that progress had been slower than he had wanted and describing the situation as difficult. Apart from the huge concentration of Russian mines, he identified the large of number of small Russian "kamikadze" drones as a key factor that had slowed Ukraine's progress so far. Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed.
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Sep 10, 2023 07:41
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i too had an emotional tug after seeing the challenger 2 burning
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Sep 10, 2023 07:46
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gross
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Sep 10, 2023 08:15
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fizzy posted:KYIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue through the onset of cold and wet weather later this year, even though it would become harder to fight, Kyiv's intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said on Saturday. Every military planner knows that the most crucial time for an offensive is the first six months.
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Sep 10, 2023 08:22
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BearsBearsBears posted:Every military planner knows that the most crucial time for an offensive is the first six months. come to think of it if u never define when your real offensive started it's always the first six months 
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Sep 10, 2023 08:27
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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1700724659715797146
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https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1699310849301594532?t=7k_4oNmHLtDXIkPDiuP5Tg&s=19 Love too commit cultural genocide
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Sep 10, 2023 09:03
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smithers voice: uh, sir you're telegraphing your intentions too hard
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Sep 10, 2023 09:05
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, that's a good way of putting it: if Putin actually was a genocidal maniac bent on mass death and destruction, then this would indeed be the appropriate response, and you'd expect all politicians and public figures to be echoing it. This has been getting me badly for years now. The demand to take incredibly serious allegations like genocide seriously, to justify doing nothing that comes close to what that allegation morally demands. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 09:42 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sep 10, 2023 09:11
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the complete disconnect between rhetoric and action might as well be a defining feature of liberalism at this point
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Sep 10, 2023 09:13
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why do they keep using this flag azov retired it https://twitter.com/OllieVargas79/status/1700557879151919189
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Sep 10, 2023 09:16
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:do I put my black lives matter sign back up or just remove the slava ukraine and have nothing in my front yard Picturing a liberal shed where these signs pile up over the years. Like children’s toys left on the carpet that must be put away. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 09:43 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sep 10, 2023 09:19
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Slava our Freedom Loving Allies ❤
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Sep 10, 2023 09:25
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thanking whoever freed lula from his awful prison cell https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1700680038276796534
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Sep 10, 2023 09:29
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Orange Devil posted:This has been getting me badly for years now. The demand to take incredibly seriously allegations like genocide seriously, to justify doing nothing that comes close to what that allegation morally demands.
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Sep 10, 2023 09:33
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these are of course separate incidents from the ukranian broadcaster who aired a picture of adolf eichmann paired with a call to exterminate all russians and their children
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Sep 10, 2023 09:35
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Good news for Ukraine - Ukraine's soldiers can take a break in 30 to 45 days' time More good news for Ukraine - Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing, because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia's control, and that has not happened and it never will happen, and that's why Ukraine is winning. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66763868 30 fighting days left for Ukraine’s offensive - US Army chief By Laura Kuenssberg & Emily McGarvey 3 hours ago Ukraine has little more than 30 days left of fighting before the weather hinders its counter-offensive, the top-ranking US military officer says. Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Gen Mark Milley said colder conditions would make it much harder for Ukraine to manoeuvre. He admitted the offensive had gone more slowly than expected. But he said: "There's still heavy fighting going on. "The Ukrainians are still plugging away with steady progress." Gen Milley said it was too early to say whether the counter-offensive had failed, but said Ukraine was "progressing at a very steady pace through the Russian front lines". "There's still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days' worth of fighting weather left, so the Ukrainians aren't done. "There's battles not done... they haven't finished the fighting part of what they're trying to accomplish." Kyiv's counter-offensive, which was launched in the summer and aims to liberate Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine, has so far seen only small gains. But Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south. "I said at the very beginning of this [war] that this was going to be long, slow, hard, and high-casualty-producing, and that's exactly what it is," Gen Milley said. In the same interview, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said "Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing". "That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia's control", he said. "That has not happened and it never will happen, and that's why Ukraine is winning." He added that Ukraine was making progress in its battle to regain its territory, having recovered 50% of the ground Russia seized. Ukraine's progress was also down to the international community "applying economic pressure and diplomatic pressure, and Russia is suffering because of that", he said.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1699310849301594532?t=7k_4oNmHLtDXIkPDiuP5Tg&s=19 Pretty sure forcibly removing 60% of a minority group is a lot closer to actual genocide.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1699310849301594532?t=7k_4oNmHLtDXIkPDiuP5Tg&s=19 you can tell those bastards are getting turgid at the idea of the impures waiting for a train, having had to pack all their belongings in a few suitcases the only thing stopping them from getting fully erect is that these people are only being forced back to another country instead of full on death camps comedyblissoption posted:why do they keep using this flag azov retired it the ukraine is very poor, they can't afford to change the flags of their neo-nazi units all the times like those emasculated rootless cosmopolitans in western europe want them to.
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Bad news for Ukraine - The Ukrainian cause no longer has enough clout to get the G20 to pay lip service to "Russia is the bad guy". - However, there was a noticeable softening of the language around Russia’s role in the Ukraine war compared to last year. All references to Russia, Russian aggression and Russia’s withdrawal in relation to the war in Ukraine that featured in last year’s joint statement at the G20 summit in Bali were removed. - Instead, the declaration emphasised that states must “refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition” and that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/09/g20-leaders-agree-joint-declaration-after-deal-on-ukraine-statement G20 leaders agree joint declaration after deal on Ukraine statement Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi Sat 9 Sep 2023 14.16 BST The G20 leaders have agreed a joint declaration, Narendra Modi announced on Saturday, alleviating fears that disagreements over the Russia-Ukraine war would prevent a consensus for the first time. Speaking at an afternoon session of the G20 summit in Delhi, the Indian prime minister said he had “just got the good news that due to the hard work of our teams and your cooperation, a consensus has been reached on the New Delhi G20 leaders’ summit declaration”. To loud applause, Modi said the declaration had been officially adopted. He said it meant this year’s G20 was “the most ambitious in the history of G20. With 112 outcomes and presidency documents, we have more than doubled the substantive work from previous presidencies”. However, there was a noticeable softening of the language around Russia’s role in the Ukraine war compared to last year. All references to Russia, Russian aggression and Russia’s withdrawal in relation to the war in Ukraine that featured in last year’s joint statement at the G20 summit in Bali were removed. Instead, the declaration emphasised that states must “refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition” and that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible”. Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 representative, said there was “100% consensus from all countries” on all 83 paragraphs in the declaration. According to Kant, in order to reach a consensus, there was over 200 hours of “very tough, very ruthless negotiations”. Kant said that Brazil and South Africa, the next two G20 presidents, had played a key role in getting Russia to agree to the language, as well as Indonesia, Turkey and Mexico. A senior EU official said that by Saturday, Russia was “cornered” in the negotiations. The declaration signifies a major win for India, which holds this year’s G20 presidency. It has been a particularly challenging year for the group, which represents the world’s largest economies, as Russia and China had proved intransigent in discussions around the Ukraine war, climate and energy, derailing attempts for a consensus in previous ministerial meetings. Until Friday night, there had been no agreement on how to refer to the Ukraine war in the joint statement and the section in the draft document relating to the “geopolitical situation” had remained blank. European countries were keen to use strong language to condemn Russia’s invasion but Russia and China had opposed any reference to the war. The Chinese delegation had also unsuccessfully objected to a reference to the US holding the G20 presidency in 2026. According to reports, on Saturday morning Indian officials sent a redrafted paragraph relating to the Ukraine conflict to the G20 leaders which was finally accepted by all members. Despite the climbdown in language over Ukraine, Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, called the declaration a “significant milestone” and said it was “a vote of confidence that the G20 can come together to address a pressing range of issues.” However Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko criticised the declaration, calling it “nothing to be proud of”. Among the other issues addressed in the joint statement were agreements around climate financing, global debt, reform of institutions like the World Bank and a new “green development pact” among member states. The declaration also ratified the African Union officially joining G20, after India extended an invite to the group during its presidency. Kant said the declaration was the “most ambitious document on climate action” so far, with commitments to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030 and a statement that developing countries will need $5.9tn (£4.7bn) in funding to achieve their climate targets. However, there was no new language on the G20’s efforts to move away from fossil fuels, with the member states – which are home to 93% of the world’s operating coal power plants – committing only to a “phase down” of coal.
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Good news for Ukraine - Germany’s defence procurement chief has said her agency is “unleashing” itself from the shackles of bureaucracy as Europe’s largest nation strives to overhaul its neglected armed forces in response to the Ukraine war. https://www.ft.com/content/82db7d15-e5b6-4d33-99a1-25cbf0e8dfe6 Top German defence official vows to speed up procurement in response to Ukraine war Laura Pitel in Berlin 5 hours ago Germany’s defence procurement chief has said her agency is “unleashing” itself from the shackles of bureaucracy as Europe’s largest nation strives to overhaul its neglected armed forces in response to the Ukraine war. Annette Lehnigk-Emden, who was appointed in April to lead the directorate charged with spending €100bn on upgrading military equipment, said she aimed to deliver a dramatic “cultural change” to hasten the process of buying weapons and ammunition. Lehnigk-Emden, whose agency has a central role in enacting Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s promise of a “sea change” in Germany’s approach to security and defence following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said her agency was pushing back against excessive regulation and complex requests from the military. The shift, she told the Financial Times, was about “encouraging people to become courageous, to make decisions . . . and make projects go faster” at all levels of the sprawling 11,000-strong organisation. “Suddenly projects that were planned for 2028 can suddenly be delivered in 2025 or 2026.” Lehnigk-Emden, a lawyer who has spent three decades as a defence official, was tasked with heading the armed force’s Koblenz-based procurement office by defence minister Boris Pistorius as part of a broader shake-up of the German armed forces. Two days after Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Alfons Mais, head of the German armed forces, said “the army is more or less bare.” The military has long been plagued by shortages ranging from basic personal equipment for troops to a lack of functioning heavy weapons and ammunition, and its procurement process has sometimes been described by experts as farcical. A helicopter division was forced to wait nine years for the approval of a new flight helmet with ballistic protection — a commercially available product that it first requested in 2013, according to a recent parliamentary report. In another instance, the report said, the Bundeswehr had been kept waiting since 2011 for a testing kit for nerve agents. Lehnigk-Emden said her agency had suffered in the past from “a lot of time and little money”, adding that the approach neglected off-the-shelf solutions that would have been simpler and quicker to deliver. Under Pistorius, who became defence minister in January following the resignation of his gaffe-prone and unenthusiastic predecessor Christine Lambrecht, “people have started thinking in a new way, they are planning projects differently”, Lehnigk-Emden said. Even after Scholz’s promise of a Zeitenwende or “turning point” in German defence policy, the chancellor has faced criticism over the pace of change and lack of resources. Speaking in the Bundestag this week, Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition Christian Democrats, said the chancellor was “not doing justice” to his pledge and warned that the defence budget would face significant shortfalls in the years ahead. Eva Högl, parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, complained in March that, even if some orders had been placed, “not a cent” from the €100bn special fund for equipping the military had been drawn down in 2022. Lehnigk-Emden differentiated between signing contracts and money flowing out. But she said her agency will have allocated about €60bn of the €100bn fund by the end of this year, with major deals including contracts to buy US-made F-35 fighter jets and Chinook heavy transport helicopters, and the Israeli Arrow 3 missile defence system. She stressed that, despite the drive for faster decision-making, her agency still faced other constraints. They included the need to secure parliamentary approval for any defence spending over €25mn — a postwar law to prevent the military from gaining the power it had accrued under Nazi rule. Lehnigk-Emden said she and her colleagues were “gobsmacked” by the arrest last month of a military officer working for her agency on the accusation of spying for Russia. She said she had no further details on what he was accused of or what kind of information he had been able to access.
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