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This guy wasted about 2.3 billion Euros by grossly mishandling protective mask purchases during the Corona pandemic. His level of competence and his level of ethics fits to his party, so he's now his party's 2nd most powerful member and currently very influential on federal legislation.
I could tell more (very!) bad things about this very unnecessary person, but I'm writing this blog post in reaction to the disinformation in the screenshot. It's taken from one of the less terrible German media organisations that's usually not under suspicion of campaigning for his party (unlike many others).
They claim his waste of public funds (a.k.a. taxpayer money) is likely the greatest any German politician is responsible of.
This is a symptom of the widespread defence policy illiteracy - and this media outlet (or at least its print twin) is one of the more active and history-rich ones in terms of reporting on bad military or defence policy.
2.3 billion Euros damage - here's a short list of worse waste of money that politicians bear responsibility for (IMO the minister of defence bears full responsibility albeit members of parliament and career officers effed up as well, of course):
- near-useless Tiger helicopters
- near-useless NH-90 helicopters
- useless heavylift helicopter (CH-47) order
- useless F 125 frigates
- F-104 Starfighter (corruption and tunnel vision, not plain incompetence)
- F-35 (2.3 billion € spent fixed cost for nothing so far)
To compile this list took a minute. There's more, so much more.
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