Turnips!
Itās a small miracle Orcs didnāt try to destroy themā¦ 
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The circle of Scholz:
Get criticised by opposition/his own coalition partners/media/foreign governments for lack of military deliveries - deflect by pulling shiny new military object out of the hat - turns out shiny new object isnāt ready/available/available in half a year/oops we donāt have ammunition - get criticised by opposition/own coalition/media/foreign governments for that - deflect by pulling shiny new object out of hatā¦ and so on.
The fucker needs to go.
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Is that an easy thing to achieve or is it reliant on him voluntarily stepping down?
No confidence vote in the Bundestag. Needs to be āconstructiveā though, meaning another candidate would need to get a majority. Has happened only once in BRD history (Kohl won it against Schmidt, FDP coalition partner switched sides).
Personally would prefer him stepping down voluntarily, but Iām pretty sure that wonāt happenā¦
Any chance that the SDP can get rid of him first?
Iād use the laugh emoji, but it isnāt grim enough. A friend who just retired from NATO HQ made EXACTLY that comment.
It is absolutely bizarre - the German military has never had it so good on the post-war era. They are struggling to even spend the previously unimaginable resources they have. But the professionals absolutely despise Scholz now, because they are repeatedly being humiliated.
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I wish, but unfortunately I donāt see that happening at all atm.
Itās depressing as hell, as therefore it seems the only possible alternative atm would be the CDU opposition leader Merz (meaning Greens and FDP would have to switch sides) - a ghoulish corporate conservative tool I donāt agree with on pretty much any other issue.
Probably not going to happen anyway though and neither are early elections. Atm it looks like weāre stuck with Scholz. 
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Sorry to keep dragging this on, but why is this?
Surely the political calculus would be that keeping this current course of action would be a liability? Either Scholz has to change his tune, or Germans in general donāt seem to view this as that big an issue?
Germans in general are not the SPD members of parliament. Thatās where the issue is. You asked me for an opinion on how likely that is. I think theyāll try to sit this one out. Donāt kill the messenger.
Hope my tone isnāt being misunderstood, Iām genuinely curious. I was really excited about this coalition, but Iām worried about the leadership, or lack thereof that Scholz is demonstrating on this. Iām just trying to understand German politics, since I donāt get much of an opportunity to get a deep dive into it via English-language media.
Is it the case therefore that SPD members are more sympathetic to Russia?
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Parts of the SPD have a Russia issue, parts of them are stuck in the past, others are naive and have a general antipathy to anything militaristic and the rest canāt believe their luck that theyāve managed to get into the Bundestag and have their party getting the chancellor job. Thatās my reading of it. It aināt pretty.
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And no @redalways , no problem with your tone. Itās just that previously I got the impression that when trying to explain something, itās occasionally misunderstood as approval or trying to defend/downplay. Thatās what I meant with the messenger thing.
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