🇩🇪 German defense contractor Taurus Systems said on Jan. 20 that it could build up its Taurus cruise missile production very quickly, even if Germany sent some to Ukraine.
The company effectively denied a statement made earlier by Johannes Arlt, an expert at Germany's Social Democratic Party.
He claimed that Germany's defense industry would struggle to replenish its needed stockpiles if it sent the missiles to Ukraine.
https://news.yahoo.com/defense-firm-denies-german-politicians-195331917.html
@rvps2001 So shortsighted. We need European leadership, and we need it from Germany.
@martinvermeer
I think it's best to look elsewhere then 😅
Germany has been attempting to weather this conflic well since 2015 and it only turned into catastrophe since then. I'm Russian and to me German political establishment looks like this: some support Russia outright, others don't — but they are all talk. Probably not far from truth — Russia corrupts anything it touches and considering former tight economic connections a lot of German politicians might be compromized.
@martinvermeer
Oh, that one for sure! I think there might be others.
This guy: https://www.dw.com/en/putin-associate-opens-russia-friendly-think-tank-in-berlin/a-19372110 is a former prominent Putin's official, I think he still lives and works in Germany and I don't think that this think tank is there for actual research 😏
Of course I don't have definitive proof, but there are good reasons to believe that German political establishment is deeply penetrated. Even AfD, who support Russia in the open, aside — I'm not sure even about others.
@rvps2001
