Tuesday's media review; the Bundeswehra will not defend us; Armoured as always

**Michael Kokot: Gazeta Wyborcza:“Bundeswehr in ruin. Germany will not defend us due to the fact that they have nothing to defend us”**
“_Germany does not admit that Russia's threat is real,” says Martin Wolff, an expert and 1 of the contributors to the Bundeswehr defence strategy. Reports on the disastrous equipment of the Bundeswehr have been published in the Bundestag for years. The exploitation of Eurofighter Typhoon deployed fighters ends in 2030. Of the 51 Tiger combat helicopters, only 9 can choice up off the ground. Germany has no anti-aircraft defence either. The Patriot and Iris-T systems are not able to effectively defend the sky, as Germany has donated most of its resources to Ukraine. It is akin with the 2000 Panzerhaubitze Haubicoarmats, which went to the Ukrainian front, and fresh ones are only to be delivered in a fewer years. The state of the ground troops is terrible. Ammunitions for artillery in 2022 were so fewer that unofficial estimates spoke of supplies for respective days of German defence in case of assault. Why is it so bad? Martin Wolff explains to me, showing graphs illustrating budget spending available on the German government website. The largest part is social expenditure - more than 1 3rd of the EUR 488 billion budget in 2025. Social cuts are needed to increase defence spending. The alternate is to incur debts, but this is not possible due to restrictions in the constitution_ says Wolff. The Germans did not protest for years erstwhile their army was shrinking.”