“The German government is misleading the public with an alleged delivery freeze while continuing to approve millions of dollars' worth of military equipment for Israel,” said Lea Reisner.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33447

#rearmament #armsExports #exports #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Germany #ammunitions #missiles #military #foreignTrade #commerce #genocideSupport #complicityInGenocide

Germany ignores export ban to send more military equipment to Israel

In August, Chancellor Merz issued a ban on weapons exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza

thecradle.co

#Budget constraints or spending stimulus?

"#Germany’s Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz (after winning the recent election) has adopted the same story. In a complete about-face from his election campaign, when he opposed any extra fiscal spending in order to ‘balance’ the government books, he is now promoting a plan to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, designed to revive and re-arm Europe’s largest economy. A new provision would exempt defence spending above 1 per cent of GDP from the “debt brake” that caps government borrowing, allowing Germany to raise an unlimited amount of debt to fund its armed forces and to provide military assistance to Ukraine. And he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to set up a €500bn fund for infrastructure, which would run over ten years. Suddenly, there is plenty of cash and borrowing to be made available for arms and military ventures."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/trumps-little-disturbance/

#rearmament #constitution #industry #arms #weapons #armsTrade #Europe #Ukraine #production #ammunitions #missiles #military #debt #austerity #stimulus #economy #tariffs #foreignTrade #commerce #exports #inflation

Trump’s ‘little disturbance’

Speaking to the US Congress yesterday after 100 days in office, President Donald Trump claimed that the new tariffs on imports from the US’s biggest trading partners would cause “a little disturban…

Michael Roberts Blog

@itwasntme223 @GottaLaff

(4/n)

...on when that delivery date would be`)

5) Europe: Incompetencies such as #Macron's recent stunt in #China* can bring this date forward, as can obvious delivery-chain failures in the #US and #Europe for #ammunitions and #weapons in the #Ukraine theater.
#China is already the biggest winner of the #WarInUkraine:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110181464532828425

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*https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/21/macron-accused-of-playing-into-xis-hands-with-taiwan-comments

Macron accused of ‘playing into Xi’s hands’ with Taiwan comments

French president might have been trying to caution against a bipolar world, but he left self-ruled Taiwan exposed.

Al Jazeera

Oekraïne stelt dat Duitsland munitieleveringen vertraagt: 'Kogels liggen klaar'

#Ukraine #Germany #ammunitions
https://www.nu.nl/-/6254999/

Oekraïne stelt dat Duitsland munitieleveringen vertraagt: 'Kogels liggen klaar'

Oekraïne stelt dat Duitsland potentiële munitieleveringen van Duitse wapenfabrikanten tegenhoudt. De kogels liggen klaar, maar wachten nog op groen licht van de Duitse regering. Dat zegt de Oekraïense minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Dmytro Kuleba, zondag in gesprek met het Duitse blad Bild.

NU