• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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    58 minutes ago

    …vowed to put economic growth above all other concerns and led a call to roll back several EU green regulations.

    Vowed to expose the economy to unnecessary risk by ignoring climate change and the catastrophic weather caused by it. Another short sighted fool in a position of power.

    *At least he also promised to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine… so that’s nice I guess.

    He lied?! surprisedpikachu.tiff

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      2 days ago

      He already back-paddled from that Taurus statement. You can’t rely on anything this guy says.

  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOP
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    This article names his position among many big ssues, like energy, climate, trade, competition etc. About defense he said:

    “We need to have discussions with both the British and the French — the two European nuclear powers — about whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the U.K. and France, could also apply to us,” he said.

    Elsewhere, Merz has promised big and broad policies to scale up Germany’s defense industry, and will be expected to follow through quickly on an earlier pledge to scrap his predecessor’s block on the dispatch of long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine for strikes on Russian targets.