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The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is a two-hour flight from Berlin. It is currently being bombed mercilessly by the Russian armed forces. It could be that it faces a similar fate to Mariupol, the almost completely destroyed metropolis on the Sea of ​​Azov. Tens of thousands died there. The war against Ukraine shows us dramatically what can happen when deterrence fails. The urgency of fully equipping the German armed forces is obvious.

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Without security, everything else is nothing, explained Chancellor Scholz at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February. These would be clear words if they were followed by equally clear actions. No wonder that the chairman of the Bundeswehr Association, André Wüstner, has now called for the Chancellor to give his authority to finance defense. As soon as the special fund for equipping the Bundeswehr is empty, which will be the case in 2025 or, according to other calculations, in 2027, almost 30 billion euros more per year would have to go into the defense budget, just to meet the NATO target of two percent

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