Social Democrat Christina Lambrecht served the Fatherland as Minister of War for just over a year.

On the one hand, the degree of popularity of the current German cabinet and its individual ministers is frankly low.

In countries like Italy, with a long and rich tradition of ministerial leapfrog, Chancellor Scholz's cabinet would hardly have lasted more than a year at all.

“We recruited according to the ad - well, let’s recruit new ones.”

In Berlin, the leapfrog is just beginning, and it's even strange that it was the Minister of Defense who started shuffling the deck.

And what, in other departments everything is brilliant or at least satisfactory?

By the mood of the Germans, you can’t say that.

Perhaps a painful experience played a role.

Ever since Angela Merkel established a gender tradition in late 2013, according to which tanks, bombers, destroyers, etc.

it is most natural and reasonable to entrust the representatives of the fair sex, and appointed the gynecologist Ursula von der Leyen as the archistrategos, in the Bundeswehr there was such a “fake knowledge” that even the saints get out.

With the transfer of Ursula to the European Union in 2019 and the appointment of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (abbreviated as "Frau Vinegret") to the post of Minister of War, things did not go better.

When forming a new cabinet at the end of 2021, Scholz tried to continue the advanced tradition and again made the cavalry lady Lambrecht, who previously held the post of Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, as Minister of Defense.

As it was sung in an old Soviet song:

"The second rifle brave platoon

Now my family."

But even with the introduction of the family principle (and the specialization in youth and the elderly generally smells like a Volkssturm), the Bundeswehr did not become too strong.

If under Ursula there were problems with small arms, then under Christina, the latest Puma infantry fighting vehicles resembled the worst examples of the Soviet automobile industry in terms of reliability.

There was also a ride by an adult son in a military helicopter (something like the Russian action "Wish Tree"), and the finale was a New Year's greeting: "Fighting is raging in the center of Europe.

There were many special experiences that I was able to get from it.

Many, many meetings with interesting, wonderful people.

I would like to thank you for this."

After that, a specialist in family affairs and senior citizens was asked to leave.

Moreover, the practice sung by the Magyar national poet Sandor Petofi -

“Is your pantry empty, damn,

What did you have to exchange a skimmer for a saber?

made the strongest impression on the Germans.

Contrary to the opinion of experts, who a few days ago unanimously asserted that, according to tradition, a lady would be appointed the new head of the department, Scholz made a courageous man, Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, Boris Pistorius, Minister of War.

The track record of the new minister is impressive.

45 years of party experience, ten years at the head of the land Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he rigidly defended the interests of his department and was not afraid to seem overly harsh towards migrants and other sacred cows of our time, if they were outrageous.

Finally, there is quite a lot in common between the positions of police president and minister of war, and Pistorius, if he wants, will quickly get into the know.

All this does not mean at all that he will be a supporter of detente between East and West, and even more so a dove, but one can expect some kind of qualification from him.

Moreover, not everything was so simple even with the unsuccessful Lambrecht.

At least she understood what kind of Augean stables she was dealing with, and, realistically assessing the capabilities of the Bundeswehr, she behaved like her boss Scholz: while verbally agreeing with her brave allies, in reality she silently sabotaged their indefatigable demands.

And not so much from peacefulness, but from a simple understanding: if all German arsenals are now devastated, then what will Germany itself be left with?

And this is with a very poorly predictable future.

About like the generals of the Reichswehr, who were not any pigeons, but found the sweeping of the Fuhrer and the Reichskatzler alien to realism.

The level of adventurism of the social democratic part of the cabinet was not high enough.

This, however, was more than compensated by the green ministers Burbock and Habek, who generally represent incomprehensible whose interests in the cabinet: either German (as it should be), or Ukrainian, or the interests of Brussels and Washington.

In terms of political and psychological type, they are generally similar to the Baltic ministers, who are distinguished by a very weak understanding of the meaning, significance and consequences of their actions.

True, with the difference that the Estonian population is 1/60 of the German one, and the bug and the giant have completely different degrees of responsibility.

The Greens seem to see Scholz as a temporary figure like Father Hindenburg, while Scholz is trying to keep the heroic Annalene from stalking him.

In this struggle, an armored dispute plays an important role.

Or “Thundering with fire, sparkling with the brilliance of steel, the cars will go on a furious campaign,” as the green pacifists dream.

Either “More carefully, more carefully,” as the Social-Democratic opportunists say.

And the new Minister Pistorius will immediately be involved in this lively dispute.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.