She was a well intentioned curse on Germany...
While Gerhard did all the best to help Gazprom and Rosneftj and allowed refugees and immigrants he wasn't inclined to pay generous benefits for opposition who didn't had paid tax ...
Angela was different.
1. You have more kids? Then more for each kid and more tax reductions from income.
2. Considerably easier to get different benefits and allowances . .
3. Reduced role of previous tax payments history in order to qualify for benefits and allowances.
4. Better import salt from Ukraine and Belarus or even Poland rather than to have local jobs in Germany.
Germany does have more salt resources than Ukraine had in 2020 th. With Poland is the same btw.
Nope, lesser local jobs : better for Angela.
5. Heavily underfunded military ....
Ofc if I was MoD in Germany I had been forced to to exactly stuff they did :
ofc taxpayers and voters should not get airplanes falling on their heads in peacetime and to have funerals in peacetime cos ships are sinking.
These all requires a lot of funding ....
So obviously ground forces to save money is lesser risky for society... .
Let's keep some xx tanks in prime condition and shape, use for exercises etc and ...keep xxx in warehouses ( depots ) till level that after some years politicians forget how much tanks they does have, where they are located and might order to check stockpiles etc...and to do audit.