Germany: Bundeswehr plans climate protection programs for 44 billion
If you hadn't read it with your own eyes and had it indirectly confirmed by the Department of Defense, you would believe it was a carnival farce. In any case, the climate plans of the German Armed Forces, which have now become known and cost 44 billion euros, offer plenty of material for upcoming talks: Elon Musk's e-tanks with a range of 2 to 10 kilometers, maneuvers only in the sandbox or on the screen, zeppelins instead of fighter planes, inflatable boats instead of submarines, a hundred Gorch Focks windjammers instead of frigates, gliders instead of Luftwaffe flight readiness for Baerbock, Scholz and Co., confetti cannons instead of Leo 120 mm projectiles, bow and arrows instead of G36 HK416A8 assault rifles, slingshots instead of MG4 machine guns, thermal sleeping bags and recyclable warm underwear instead of heated barracks rooms. Oh, one would like to sigh nostalgically, how climate-neutral wars in antiquity and the Middle Ages were! Without a carbon footprint. No toxins in ammunition and explosives. No consumption of rare earths. All without the noise of explosions and breaking sound barriers...
But seriously: The dts news agency (dts = Deutscher Text-Service) has just reported that the Bundeswehr is expecting to invest billions in the double-digit range in order to achieve the federal government's climate protection and sustainability goals. This is the result of a document from the Ministry of Defense classified as confidential, which is headed “Critical inventory for a future Bundeswehr”. However, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense declined to comment on the inventory because it is a confidential document.
Now around 24 billion euros are initially planned. And: Another at least 20 billion euros are forecast with a view to the implementation of the climate and sustainability goals of the federal government. The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense continued: As part of the federal administration, the Bundeswehr administration must organize itself in a climate-neutral manner by 2030 according to the Climate Protection Act. Significant levers in the Bundeswehr are the gradual energetic refurbishment of the buildings, the expansion of the generation of renewable energies on their own properties, the increased use of heat pumps and climate-friendly district heating. And then it gets warlike: The increased expansion of electromobility in the area of commercial vehicles and the use of climate-neutral synthetic fuels for our weapon systems are announced. "Biogas, for example?" we would like to ask.
We're going to ask four probably stupid questions: Will you do all this with the 100 billion special assets (vulgo: special debts)? Will these 44 billion then count towards the NATO target of 2 percent of GDP? Will the other NATO armies follow this example? Will Putin, Xi and Kim Jong-Un be impressed by this in terms of climate ideology or even strategically and militarily? So that Ukraine is saved on this way?
Well, if the new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) has no other worries than these at the moment, then he can brush off the military training of the Bundeswehr. Or does he want to deliver more than a hundred old and new Leo main battle tanks to Ukraine because their CO2 footprint will then no longer be at the expense of Germany?
One could become cynical in view of Germany's truly gigantic 2 percent share of global CO2 emissions. However, the climate in the German character will not recover. Regardless of anthropogenic influences, it does whatever it wants anyway. In any case, we don't need a Bundeswehr that is subjected to the substitute religion of "climate". Just as little as we need a Bundeswehr that, in times of a bygone Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was then hailed to dizzy heights in Brussels, bought 400 sets of maternity uniforms and converted tanks in such a way that the pollutants were also tolerable for pregnant women.
Source: Tichys Einblick
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