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On February 27, 2022, Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared a turning point in the German Bundestag. After a few weeks of optimism, the Bundeswehr has since become sober again. There is now a special fund of 100 billion euros and a Federal Armed Forces Procurement Acceleration Act(s), but not much has happened beyond that. The structures are largely unchanged, geared towards eternal peace. To put it bluntly: fear of the Federal Audit Office is greater than fear of Russia. The new Federal Minister of Defense still has a (brief) chance for a new beginning of the turning point. In the second half of

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