You’re still leaving out Finland and the Baltics.

I explicitly mentioned Finland (transport by ship instead of rail or air) and implicitly addressed the Baltics as any attack on them will start with an attempt to close the Suwalki gap between Kalinigrad and Belarus, which makes Eastern Poland the front line.

and you dodged is timeline

Some rail lines in the Baltics were already reworked, some were build new, years ago with a new track guage not matching the former Russian one but intentionally not to EU standard. So I'm not addressing the timeline because there was obviously no interest in the first place.

How do banks work then? Transfers in cash? Or does that global consensus state in fact not rely on realtime communication?

most of the EU’s frontier has non-European gauge track

Adapting to Western track gauge (thus also not running on the standard Russia uses for their logistics would indeed be a worthwhile investment in a countries defense, doubling also as a investment into civilian transport capabilities.

Second, rail infrastructure can be destroyed and it is generally harder to get rail infrastructure back up after being bombed

Reality disagrees, heavily so as Russia is demonstrating for years now. And you're probably underestimating the complexity of keeping runways of a quality, width and length to support heavy transports operational. Anti-runway bombs and missiles are a whole class of weapons developed just for that reason.

PS: Speaking of... is this not accurate?

Sorry to tell you, but given the existence of Kaliningrad and Belarus the actual front line will not be far from Poland. (And Scandinavia and Finland are mostly irrelevant for this discussion as neither flight nor rail will be the primary mode of transportation to get there.)

Hmm... welchen Anteil könnten Medien haben, die es selbst in einer solchen Analyse nicht schaffen, tatsächliche Probleme anzusprechen?

Klar, das Problem der Regierung ist nicht etwa das Brechen jeglicher Wahlversprechen, massive offensichtliche Korruption und die Veruntreuung von nahezu einer Billion an neuer Schulden, die für Investitionen vorgesehen waren, die konsequent blockiert wurden, als man selbst noch in der Vorgängerregierung oder dann Opposition war. Denn sonst hätte man irgendetwas davon sicher erwähnt.

Nein, es ist die Stimmung der Bevölkerung und das Unvermögen von Politikern sich sympathischer zu präsentieren... Ich weiß gerade, wie so oft, nicht ob ich 🤣 oder 🤮 soll.

Entgegen der Narrative: bei der Umsetzung dessen, was die Wähler wollen.

Denn die wählen diese Scheiße aktiv, immer und immer wieder. Und wenn es wirklich nicht mehr geht dann ist ihre Alternative die selbe Scheiße in noch extremer.

Dafür dass Deutschland offensichtlich krankhaft dumm ist, kann sonst niemand etwas.

daamaaaaaals haben die Leute doch auch ohne diesen ganzen Schnickschnack Kinder bekommen

Du meinst dieses heute schwer vorstellbare "Damals" als sich noch jemand um die Kinder kümmern konnte, weil ein einzelnes Durchschnittsgehalt eine Familie ernähren konnte, im Vergleich zu heute, wo es selbst mit zwei vollen Gehältern schwer wird, wenn die Kinderbetreuung auch noch kostet? 😆

Oh, hat da jemand endlich geschnallt, dass Kulturkampf uns in den Faschismus treibt, und sattelt jetzt aus Angst wieder um auf Generationenkampf um?

Als wäre nicht beides nur Ablenkung für den Klassenkampf von oben, der schon lange läuft, immer mehr Fahrt aufnimmt, aber von dem wir lieber nichts wissen sollten, damit wir uns nicht wehren.

"The biggest hurdle in the negotiations was likely whether the new means of payment should function exclusively online or also independently of an active internet connection."

How can this even be a question? As long as governments don't give me free internet access and the minimum of required hardware making it online only would be rediculous. Either it's a working system for all citizens not just those who can afford it or it's a conceptional stillbirth.

Oh, they are absolutely the bad guy we are looking for. Constantly working on undermining our privacy rights on behalf of lobbyists from US companies and organisations competing against those US companies now mostly in control of our data, is neither good nor pro EU souvereignity.

The things you list there are NATO gaps, based on NATO's, or more correctly the US' ambition to project power and play world police.

Why do we need heavy air transport capabilties when we have rail lines? How is Ukraine right now handling destruction of Russian air defense (not even speaking about their actual performance vs what they should be able to do on paper) with just a fraction of the EU's SEAD/DEAD capabilties? How are they even operating without the US sharing data for more than a year? Might Europeans actually be able to gather information about a neighbour on the same land mass effectively with less ressources? And why is the ability for nuclear annihilation not enough, but the ability to destroy the planet another 50 times after that is somehow a gap?

Yeah, we know. NATO is weaker without the US, but that's true for any member. Just because some clown in the White House is too stupid to realize this and plans artic warfare after alienating basically 95% of NATO's artic capabilities or getting a strait blokced by mines while insulting allies with the actual demining capabilities, we don't need to make the same stupid mistake. The US capabilities mostly align with US requirements. Ones that are no longer NATO requirements when the US decides to not be a part anymore.

There is and never will be any common strategic planning and common spending without common foreign and fiscal policies. So I assume his country will not loudly cry "but our souvereignity!" when those things are proposed...

"While insisting that member states should remain in the driver’s seat of defense policy, the former Lithuanian prime minister said..."

So that's a no. Thx, bye.

"In practical terms, Kubilius wants to advance plans for [...] a European Security Council [...]. Such a body could discuss issues ranging from the European pillar of NATO to defense industrial policy."

Yeh, no. That idea would not close any gaps but create them by making the EU dependent on single members that can veto everything just by withholding their military assets that are an integral and coordinated part of a common defense architecture.

"In his view, European military doctrines should follow Ukraine’s example by better integrating innovation and smaller players into procurement processes and defense planning.

For now, Kubilius said, “there is not enough space for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises to grow up.”

At the same time, he added, Europe’s largest economies, including Germany and France, still purchase relatively little defense equipment directly from their European partners.

So this is the actual issue. Got it... Again: Thx, bye. We will no be the piggy bank for your ambitions to build up domestic industry. Countries making decisions based on how much their own industry can benefit instead of military considerations is the actual cause for the insane fragmentation of EU defense planning and spending, not a solution.

Das ist eine falsche ökonomische Betrachtung, weil erst einmal das Narrativ der ungeeigneten Windstandorte in Bayern übernommen wird. Im Gebirge, wo die umliegenden Berge den Wind beeinflussen muss man aber schlichtweg ein klein wenig höher bauen und schon sieht es da genauso gut aus.

Zwischen "Windräder in Bayern rentieren sich, die Rendite ist nur wegen der etwas höheren benötigten Bauweise und deren Kosten geringfügig geringer aber immer noch gut" und "Bayern ist ungeeignet (2 mal so viel Windräder für die selbe Ausbeute benötigt - also völlig unwirtschaftlich), aber um Transport- und (dem Rest von Deutschland) Netzkosten zu sparen kriegen wir Subventionen, um trotzdem Windkraft zu bauen" liegen halt Welten. Auch wenn beide Argumentationen zum dem Schluss kommen, Windräder zu bauen.

Eines ist einfach und richtig. Das andere ist falsch und nimmt ein Propagandanarrativ gegen Windkraft für bare Münze und ist ein gefundenes Fressen für Spinner alà "Die Idioten bezahlen uns jetzt schon, damit wir Windräder in unsere schönen Wälder stellen, obwohl das wenig Sinn ergibt. Scheiß Idiologie!".