“Learn to code?”

Forget that one, right? Get a job with a German armaments firm instead.

That’s the only industry booming over here at the moment.

German Shipbuilder TKMS Reports Rise in Sales, Earnings Fueled by Europe’s Defense Spending – Results are first since spinning off from Thyssenkrupp and its Frankfurt IPO.

German of the day: Attentat-Komplott

That means assassination plot.

German shock at reported Russian assassination plot – German political figures have reacted angrily to a report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany’s biggest arms company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger...

The company is one of the world’s biggest producers of ammunition and has become key to supplying Ukraine with arms, armoured vehicles and other military equipment.

Rheinmetall recently opened a tank repair plant in western Ukraine. Last month, it signed an agreement with Ukraine to expand co-operation in the coming years, including a joint venture to produce artillery shells.

Ein Bombengeschäft

A bomb of a business, a roaring trade, a gold mine. And the same procedure as every year.

“Germany Now World’s Third Largest Arms Exporter.” Now? Been that way for years, folks. Get used to it already.

Pacifists. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

“When it comes to arms exports, few will be surprised that the US tops the list.”