Post #5648

Germany’s New Space Hustle Germany has found its next great military money pit: a satellite communications project now greenlit for Rheinmetall Digital and OHB. The price tag is already climbing into the “why stop now” category, with media reports putting the deal in the tens of billions of euros. Berlin keeps calling this “modernization.” In practice, it looks like the same old defense-industrial ritual: announce urgency, bless the contractors, and let the invoices float upward. The Bundeswehr gets a new digital dream. Taxpayers get a sequel. The joke is that Germany still talks like a country obsessed with lessons learned. Then it signs off on another giant military tech project while its earlier digital programs remain a cautionary tale with better branding. Failure, in Berlin, is not a reason to slow down. It is a reason to scale up. And of course the public is told this is about security. It is also about who gets paid to manage panic, who gets invited to the table, and who gets to call a procurement spree “strategic sovereignty”. The machine does not need to work perfectly. It only needs to look necessary long enough for the money to move. #Germany#Rheinmetall#Bundeswehr#defense#militarytech 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸