The greens has so far been more efficient. The Botnia track was part of their deals with the socdem government 2002-2006. But I doubt they could get the Y either (assuming left wing victory in 2010). At least not without a really good negotiation position. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Currently, the armed forces are extremely badly managed. Extremely. I know plenty of people with a good insight in the actual sausage-making, and it's worse than you can imagine. We get zero effect from the money we spend. Zero.
This means we should either stop the expenditure (roughly 5 billion euros per annum) or completely restructure it, something the current government is doing its best to fool people they are doing, but actually aren't. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
I bet the FSB knows this just as well from its own sources in the sausage-making. But Russia doesn't invade, despite zero true military potential! So, perhaps, all of it is pointless? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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Pointless? Certainly at the moment. The question cannot be allowed to be "should the status quo stand?". Either we must have a defence which works and spends tax money in an efficient way, or we should dismantle it entirely. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Mobilisation time is no longer 24 hours for frontline units and 7 days for total societal mobilisation, but 52 weeks (not days, not hours, but weeks) for the handful (8) of qualified "light manoeuvre battalions" we're supposed to have.
So mobilisation time has increased by more than 300 times, numbers are down by more than 95 % and costs are... the same. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
