Die Leute verlassen die Burg.

I am not arguing against your overall assessment of the German police. But there is always an investigation, for what it’s worth …

Well, if you live in a somewhat civilized country …

You may have misses the various studies conducted on the inefficient spending of said budgets.

“Certainly not us!” said every politician ever.

But hey, at least we got that one trillion euro investment package for military and infrastructure spending. Which is totally not going to get misused by using it to fill gaps in the regular budget. Right?

Even Latvia?

Wildberry might still. Delivery is another matter, though.

Don’t we all?

[…] weeks after Washington secured permanent military control over Greenland

Interesting way to say “the situation remains the same since WW2”.

Your comment gives me the impression that you think Ukraine is too dependent on Starlink and not making an effort to change that. And my question is why you might think that.

What gives you the impression that they don’t try? That they don’t launch hundreds of satellites themselves?

Danger noodles have a right to be loved too!

Everybody has warned us about this? How should we have known this would happen? 😱

Given the state of the world I wouldnt be surprised that given enough applications they can find an ai recruiter every week.

Simply put, the crime from drugs arises only from society criminalizing the supply. People want to have a good time and where there is a demand a supply follows. But the demand doesn’t go away because of the criminalization, just as you said. The substitute for illegal drugs (cocaine, heroin, …) are legal drugs (alcohol, nicotine, …). But as many users will tell you illegal drugs provide a whole different level of high. The substitute therefore is imperfect and we get to the situation we are at today.

Thinking about guns: Which demand do they satisfy? Security? Every nation on earth operates a police force that is trained in and tasked with upholing law and order (to which extend they do is a different debate). Therefore the average citizen does not need a weapon for self-defense. Skillfull competition? There are many other fields people can compete in. If it has to be loud and make a bang there is i.e. rocket assisted model aviation just to name one. Guns can therefore be reasonably substituted by other means.

The latter

Roughly 100k tons of diesel iirc.

No, you just don’t want to understand!

Best regards
Friedrich Merz

However, there is also the concept of silently casting spells.

Oh, “they” already have them. Be it MAGA in the US questioning citizenship by birth or here in Germany the AFD which plans to strip it from people they do not considere German enough.