Hunches and gut feelings. Dreams in waking life.
Germany has a track record of not being a reliable European partner when it comes to aerospace, energy, and defense. They’d rather play their own game, give subsidies to Starlink instead of working with European partners, ESA, and cooperate with existing knowledge. Random articles but tldr it’s always Germany’s economy first thanks to the US [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
They’d probably be more reliable than Germany with Ariane
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