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And there are tons of laws that forbid abusing childs. Like you can't hit them, shake them. In the USA they perhaps have a law that you can't put them in a microwave, I dunno.
And the laws in the european countries that forbid silly names are usually not restrict your "owners rights", but to protect the kid. In Germany, I mean, over here they forbid that people called their kid "Rumpelstilzchen", the name of an imp/goblin in a very well know fairy tale. If the parents would have come through I expect that the kid would have ridiculed in school and outside quite a lot. Other kids can be cruel ... and even the odd mindless adult.
Actual names that german parents wanted for their kids, but that weren't granted: Bierstübl, Borussia, Crazy Horse, Gastritis, Grammophon, Januar, Joghurt, Kirsche, Liebknecht, McDonald, Millenium, Möhre, Pfefferminze, Pilulla, Porsche, Rosenherz, Rumpelstilzchen, Satan, Schmitz, Schnucki, Schröder, Seerose, Sputnik, Störenfried, Rasputin, Verleihnix, Waldmeister, Whisky, Woodstock
Some have outright negative connotation (Satan, Störenfried, Rumpelstilzchen), others are just extremely uncommon and thus standing out. For example, in Germany we don't name girls about other things like Melody, Crystal, Daisy, Faith, Grace, Haven, Hazel, Amber, etc. So if you name your kid after a product or a thing, e.g. Porsche, Kirsche or Joghurt, then it will draw the wrath of the other kids onto itself.
And THAT is the reason the authorities don't allow a name. It's not about unusualness alone. A lot of unusual first names were the parents could show "Esenosarumensemwonken is a first name in Nigeria" go through.
I know that e.g. in 1985 the (west) german army had tempest rules e.g. for mobile elint systems. You couldn't use a normal computer for e.g. triangulation, or to look up things in databases. The reason was that even back then video of a normal computers could be monitored from more than 100 m away.
So far mostly human work is taxed, then value-adding, a bit property, and a less bit capital.
If we want a system where there is some universal income, then we need to tax property and capital more and also tax some non-human work.
Look for example to America (i mean the continent, there is no country named that). Civilisation brought extinction to various indigenous tribes, but in norther and central america. It brought slavery. In a way, we are over that now, aren't we?
Look for example to Europe (I'm so glad that no european country is so full of it and call itself just "Europe"). They had hundreds of wars in a 10 year period. Some small ... but some like the 30 year long war more devastating than even the 2nd world war.Sure, some people there (look into ex-jugoslavia or look into Russia) still think that mass-killing people is good. Oh, did I mention 2nd world war? Then look there, too. And how one society thought they have the right to extinguish Jews, Gypsies, Jehovas Witnesses, mental ill people and basically any political opponent. I still think we can say that we are over such a thing.
Look for example to Asia. There was a country that waged war on China because China was not buying enough Opium. Or look like the asian golden horde devastated with utter cruelty whole (at the time) mega-cities. And they brough the bubonic plague on top of it ...
Or look at Africa. I mentioned the slaver for America ... but actually african tribes captured people from other tribes and sold them. We can't say that slavery is totally abolished in Africa (I heard the Boko Haram does it) --- but certainly not at the scale it used to be.
If you think that society develops backwards, then just looking at how things used to be 100, 200 or 500 years.
Semites are also e.g. Arabs. It comes from linguistic science and denotes people speaking Hebraic, Arabic or new-Aramaic languages. Look up the philologist August Ludwig von Schlözer who coined the term if that is new to you.
Also, criticizing a country is something very normal.
When one criticizes the Japan of 1930 to 1945 ... was this anti-zen? Or anti-nipponic? Or was it about their government?
When one criticizes the Syria of 1971-1924 ... what this anti-islamistic? Or anti-arabic? Or was it about their government, specifically their dictator?
When one criticizes the Israel of recent times ... is this anti-jewish? Or anti-semitic? Or is it about their government and various movements in said country?
It's only when we criticize the Israel government that suddenly people intermix politics with religion. And also with belonging to long extinct tribe groups. Or that they blame e.g. a synagogue congregation in Denmark with human-right violations of Israel settlers. Suddenly people stop being able to differentiate.
I see that there are countries that are anti-jewish (like Iran). And Persians aren't Semites, so maybe they are also anti-semitic, I can't judge this. But neither Iran nor Yemen or other puppet-organizations like the Hezbollah rule the UN. I'm quite sure that they can't even nudge the UN.
So claiming that the UN is anti-semitic is un-factional. I have seen zero evidence, and the people claiming this haven't brought up any evidence. The most they can bring up is that some UN sub-organization doesn't do the exact bidding of the current Israel government. Or that some UN sub-organization has the occasional mole or spy amongst them ... but hey, I don't want to know how many organizations have the odd moles or spy from the Mossad in them. That doesn't make them wholly israel-controlled.
High tides aren't new, and there are areas in the world that battle them since decades. E.g. at the north sea in Germany.
The the governments gave money to their universities and they made studies: how would a high tide impact the area? Some of the impact was obvious, since there have been disastrous floods. But some are not, e.g. of the economical impact. And then they again put money into universities, to let them study hydrology and water-related civil engineering to a much higher degree.
And so we got more modern versions of dams, the harbours and naval bases were protected. Even the rivers were protected, since a high tide travels upwards the river. See for example the https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidersperrwerk (sorry, didn't find an english version -> look at the pictures, learn a foreign language, use LLM translation)
But ... all of this is weak compared what the Dutch did regarding hydrology. They not only made protection buildings, but they also made buildings to convert ex-ocean into arable and livable lands. One large example is e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
So if you look for people that are good at studying the impact of floods (civil and economically) and that are good at doing anything against ... there are possibilities.
You must however tame your ICE. No dutch engineer is willing to work in the USA if the ICE puts him randomly in deportation camps, like they even did for a Swiss journalist of a conservative (!) outlet.
This is because people that bring that argument act like every house is it's own electric island. But that's far from the truth. In developed countries the electric grid is HIGHLY interconnected. Look at this beautiful map: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/
So, how likely is it that it's cloudy in Bulgaria and Spain and Germany and UK and Hungary and and and ...
(It's only the US that decided to mis-design their grid. Instead of one united, where each one can help the others, they have 4 different grid. That is also one of the reason why the SAIDI --- duration of power interruptions per customer and year --- is so terribly bad).
Also, if you buy your solar cells to work with ambient light, put them into east-west (instead of south) and use an inverter that doesn't use 50W just for itself --- then you can also get power WHEN it it cloudy. Enough to sustain e.g. your router, fridge etc. Not enough to charge an EV.
But... for a day-night-cycle we have local batteries. They got cheap in the last 5 years. I mean, the cheaper ones arrive at 100 €/ kWh.
And finally: no one every proposed that "a single solution is all we need". We don't need just Ford passenger cars. We also need vans. And trucks. And buses.
By limiting your thinking artificially to "How can I oppose a situation where ONLY solar panels provide power" you're doing your own reasoning power no favor. The starting premises is already faulty, almost like a strawman attack (invent some bogus scenario, attack that scenario, hope that others that can't think sharp fail for this bad reasoning).
The fun thing is that people like you post this again and again, in every discussion. Since years. As if you're unable to learn that the world isn't only "one solar island next to another solar island". Why is it so hard to understand that a grid is inherently connected? And that we have a multitude of ways to generate electric power?
In an ideal world no one would bother where power comes from. From "the grid" or "from local". Why should "the grid" get some benefit? Over local production? IMHO such a thinking artificially limits competition.
What should still bother the law makers is the impact "grid power" vs. "local power". E.g. if AI computing centers build gas turbines for local power, but that creates noise and air pollution.
"Balcony solar"'s idea is to get solar into the hand of people without almost no extra cost. By design, you can plug it in into a normal socket. So you don't even need to call an electrician. No new power cable needs to be installed. And the basic idea of this ("make it so simple that even 85 year old Aunt Mary can do it") is IMHO worthwhile.
For a regular solar, you need to check if your roof can withstand the weight and wind forces. You need to install electric lines, circuit breakers etc etc. All of this costs several factors more than the pure voltaic panels.
And usually (I did not read into detail here) the total cost of energy is never calculated.
In Europe, nuclear power plants usually don't have an insurance. It's the state that pays of the cleanup after an aftermath. So total cost is socialized.
Few countries have final deposits. With current technology, you need to operate them for thousands of years (e.g. guard them, so that no terrorists can get the material for "dirty bombs"). None of these total-cost studies calculates this in.
Many countries don't have their own source of uranium or the fabs to bring it up for usage in power plants. So it happens that by betting on solar, you bet on the goodwill of some external country. Did you know that most nuclear related companies worldwide used to be owned by the russian RosAtom? I have no idea if that is still true now after 5 years of war against Ukraine, so maybe the odd country seized mines or enrichment plants. But RosAtom owned stuff abroad, like Canada or Australia. Finding new ways if some terrorist country like russia suddenly ceases to supply you (like they did with gas) has a very high oppertunity cost. These studies usually don't plan in "second source" economic calculations.
In Germany, the four big electric power companies (e.g. Vattenfall, EON etc) say since decades that they don't want to open new nuclear power plants. Since it is not economically feasible. If the TCO would really be spectacular, then they would say differently. In those places, where they still open nuclear plants, like France, even a single block costs billions. I mean, one block estimated to cost 3 billion euro was costing 27 billion. Do these fabricated studies calculate in this grave error of factor 12? In France, EDF only works because it is state backed. If the TCO would be any good, they would swim in money like the senior Uncle Duck.
Governments have conflicting goals. You think "raise taxes" is the most important goal. But, believe it or not, some governments -- even conservative ones -- also have goals like "protect the envirnment".
In Germany for example, you are nominally required to register your balcony solar. Online, no fee. So it's easy. But .. there are no fines attached if you don't do it. And they don't ask for any taxes.
They are HAPPY that you do your local electricity power after Putin turned off gas export and it turned out that LPG import is way more costly (due to cooling and pressure, a lot of the stored energy is used for that during the transport/processing on that).
In Germany, there was even a process where the politics told the electrical engineers to not be so anal about electric security to make plug in of these devices into normal sockets a possibility. The VDE only wanted special sockets to be used. The politics said "Nope, too expensive for the normal people".
The idea that legislative and executive is only working AGAINST the people is invalid.
So for example a high voltage power line is planned to be installed between point A and B. Now, probably some land has to be bought. But maybe not everyone sells land. So maybe land is seized, for the good of all. But ... is it really for the good of alL? The government MUST know beyond a doubt it that line is really worthwhile for the entirety. They need hard planning numbers.
There are numerous scenarios available where a government --- or even private companies --- need dependable statistical numbers to do planning.
And that is e.g. the reason why in Germany businesses have to wire lots of data to a government statistical bureau. We all can then get the relevant statistics out of the 16 state and the one federal offices of statistics. Or (e.g in Germany) the "Bundesnetzagentur" uses it base decisions about the grid on it.
Or private people need to register (cost free, via web, at least in Germany) their balcony solar. Compared to what the businesses have to tell this is almost negligible. It only makes sense due to the sheer number of balcony solar installations.
And Germany is #4 regarding grid stability (measured in SAIDI) in Europe. There are only some tiny and small countries better than the german grid, and no large industrial country. And, btw, Europe has a WAY higher grid stability than the Americas.
Why is that important? Years ago, I had weekly telcos with a customer in Tucson, Arizona. And more often than not we didn't had one: they had no power over there. So the shabby quality of the public grid influenced in a bad way their economy. Businesses simply couldn't talk and plan during that period. Probably also not produce.
Having a top-notch grid is IMHO a basis for a successful economy.
(And fun thing: the german grid is so good ALSO because of our neighbors. We're all interconnected. In Germany, we don't really have the landscape for massive water pump storage power plants. But when we have excess electricity, the ones in Austria and Switzerland are using "our" power. And we need the power, we get "their" power back. Or France ... in the summer, they now routinely have to power down their nuclear plants due to cooling issues. But in France ... no one notices. We all help each other. In year 53% of the french atomic power was "out" due to climate change and regular maintenance. And it all worked nethertheless. As it should be!)
That is weird and IMHO totally wrong. And I'm living in Germany. Anyone here can e.g. create an isolated network, without any permission. The local electricity provider etc doesn't care. All they care however that they remove the counter and the main circuit breaker at their end, to really isolate your house from the rest.
For example, there is are excavations around https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltenwelt_am_Glauberg and AFAIK it's still not clear if that area is mostly a castle, or if it was mostly some cultic thing -> nothing written, not even in clay or chiseled into stone.
Similarly, in this article https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_(Arch%C3%A4ologie) that describes the salt mining in Hallstadt since the bronze age there is only so much that they know.
So, did they use torches? They have decayed over this time.
We know however that they had some kind of meat industry at Hallstein. They had plenty of salt, and so they used that to make meat durable. Animal skulls survived the times ...
The name Hallstadt (not the two l letters) means Salt Town.
Or, actually "place". In a lot of location names of germanic origin "stadt" doesn't the current semantics, of being a town with > 10.000. More often than not it just means "place".
And "Hall" is an old term for salt. Many towns related to salt have it in their names, in many places of Germany and Austria. "Halle an der Saale" in Thüringen, Bad Reichenhall (Bayern), Hall im Tirol (Österreich), Schwäbisch-Hall (Baden-Württemberg) etc.
"Hall" is believed to be of celtic origin.
And the double l is important. German is a language where in the written form you look at the letters and you immediately see how it is spoken. A double vocal makes the speed slower, and a double consonant makes the speech faster. So "Halstadt" would be slow Hal (so more emphasize on the "a" instead), and "Hallstadt" would be a fast "Hall", similar in speed like the english "hell": little emphasize on the "a".
Really? The last time I checked, Germany was sitting well in the middle of Europe
* contrary to many countries it has had export/import surplus since decades. Not a single year with a deficit since 1952. Compare this e.g. with the USA, which had the last surplus in 1975.
* it's tiny, look at it on a globe. And yet it's number 3 worldwide on economic power. Two years surpassed Japan that is larger by size and has double the people
* in June it had the highest exports ever in it's history
And that is just ONE of the European countries. Others, like Switzerland and Netherlands aren't shabby either, especially normalized to inhabitants or country size.
Well, that is not an issue. The US companies that hacked other seem to not be prosecuted at all.
Also, no state attorney doesn't seem to prosecute them on the large scale intellectual theft. Instead content creators like movie companies or the kids book author that made the Grüffelo need to start one-after-the-other civil claims onto them.
So US companies in the LLM area can be ruthlessly criminal. No one holds them accountable.
There are rumors that they stole chat logs from mathemiticians running problems through them for their own math findings. Again, no one holds them accountable.
The "hold accountable" is IMHO just CEO speach: fluff and empty air, but nothing behind it. If my opinion is true, then it doesn't matter if I can NOT hold an european company, a US company, or a chinese company accountable.
Also, currently the US is more and more aggresive towards other countries. Haven't heard of China raising tariffs for no reason at all, but random amounts. Or bullying e.g. european companies if they want to control the the market might (and abuse of it, see e.g. their uncontractual price raises or what they did to Ukraine --- with Starlink terminals payed for by european countries!).
China is no one friends ... don't get me wrong. But it isn't as vile as the USA currently is.
Do you know this? Or do you assume this?
I actually don't know. However, being from (west) Germany and old enough I know how a real socialist state, the east german GDR, handled it. And keep in mind that they were way more stalinistic than China is.
In the GDR you could have government jobs without being in the SED. In November 1989 they had 2.1 million members. Since the GDR had a population of 16.4 million, a whopping 12.8%. That a higher percentage than in China. And yet they had numerous even higher officials that weren't in the SED. Example "Hauptbuchhalter" in the combinats (some kind of main bookkeeper --- but keep in mind that their job was to follow the planned economy goals, not booking activa and passive). Or members of the central bank. Or lots of teachers (which in both Germanys are traditional official clerks ("Beamte").
They however couldn't be in (open) opposition to the system. There was "the sword of the party", the SED. And they had informants everywhere. So if you showed any sign of opposition, you were removed.
So you needed to be a "yes sayer", but being "SED party member" was not mandatory.
It is far from solved. They don't round up all the instigators, but all they don't like. At https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/laender/elsalvado... (travel warnings from the german ministry of foreign affairs) Germans with tattoos are advised to cover them. Because the El Salvador police forces will persecute them. They don't need a court or evidence, for them anyone with a tattoo is a criminal.
If that is your definition of "solving", then I don't know.
IMHO such a thing can be a first step of a solution. Social reforms, resocialization etc are mandatory follow up steps to reach a stable, non-violent society.
Also: whole schools went to the demonstrations. Pupils and teachers (because they don't like to work in marode buildings either). And we cannot claim that all the pupils and all of the teachers of a school are communist.
But yes, the communist party in France has about 43000 members. But we nation has 66.7 million people. So we shouldn't give this few radicals more influence than they deserve. If anything, the populist right is way more influential and numerous.
Somehow in France the demonstrations have a way higher likelihood to get violent than e.g. in Germany. Just think of the yellow vest demonstrations. Also, the french police is known to be violent, too. Perhaps they don't follow the de-escalation strategies the german police often (not always!) follow? In France, demonstrators lost a hand, teeth, an eye due to police force. That's certainly not as bad as the 9220 people killed by US police in 2024. But for Europe, it's a quite stark expression of government violence.
We must also understand that the majority of journalists are like the Demonstrators from the Harry Potter universe. They life of emotions. Often they artificially create them. I mean, why show a picture of 20000 people just holding up posters --- in a language you won't often be able to read --- if I can show a picture of 4 people torching down a car?
There are simply too many conflicts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
And your claim "when Americans are attacked by Israelis" is IMHO also misleading. As if "attacking americans" is anything special.
I mean, your (and mine!) government did nothing when "americans" attacked ...
* Iraq based one fabricated lies? (Actually my government told the USA that their single witness talking about WMDs is a lunatic and should not be believed). Around 500000 people died directly or indirectly due to this war. That's a number of the University of Washington, so not some propaganda number. And yet, due to the killings of the 9/11 --- which was "only" 2996 deaths --- many countries went into mass hysteresis. But for the 500000 people died in Iraq we only have a shoulder movement? I'd even go so far and say that the rise of the ISIS was only possible because the USA created a might vacuum in Iraq.
* Now, the 9/11 attack by criminals made the USA call article 5 of the NATO statutes. As if a nation did attack them (it was a bunch of criminals). And they use that to bully others to attack Afghanistan. Now, no people of Afghanistan took part in the 9/11 attack. And the leader of that attack, bin Laden, wasn't even there. He was in Pakistan. And no full scale war was needed to get him, a commando ops was all it needed.
* If the WMDs in Iraq as a lie to make war wasn't the only one the USA did to have a reason to attack. They also fabricated the tonkin incident. Do you know that even today babies get born with gene defects in Vietnam due to Agent Orange? What does your government do about that?
* Iraq wasn't the only regional conflict with USA participation where the people were in a worse state then even under a cruel dictator. The other that comes to mind is Libya. Till today, the power vacuum created by the USA fuels a civil war, making life of people there miserable.
If governments were just and would act on all of this, then they would have made boycotts towards the USA like we now do this (rightfully!) with Russia.
It's just that humans aren't just and good. And so human government aren't good and just either.
Here is just one of them: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/westjordanland-palaestinenser...
If you don't know german and translate the article, you'll learn that they speak about "at least 30 murdered by settlers". So even if you didn't notice the sequence of articles over the years, you can see from this one article that we don't talk about isolated singularities.
The topic is even covered by jewish outlets (and not favorable for the settlers!), e.g. https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/siedlergewalt-ei...
The thing is that in Israel the central government is in a coalition with Nazis. Not german nazis, but jewish nationalist that have similar mind setting (e.g. valuing jewish live way higher than non-jewish life. Or having the idea that one needs "room to settle", this time not in east europe, but instead in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
And anther thing is similar: the german police was "Gleichgeschaltet" and didn't really persecute crimes. E.g. if one was so bold and to notice the police about crimes in the "Reichspogromnacht", then the police didn't follow up the e.g. arsonist crime, but instead the one reporting this to the police. And now in Israel, the minister of the interior (and thus boss of Police) is Moshe Arbel. Known for support of the settler movement. Or for declaring that the israel health sector mustn't treat palestinians anymore.
And so, the israel police no longer treat crimes against palestinians in the illegally occupied zones. Even when the wrong-doers enter Israel (so that the police becomes responsible again).
And, since these zones are occupied, not even the occupation force (the IDF) prosecute the settlers crimes. Most settlers are part of the IDF, they often use IDF weapons to do their crimes.
And therefore, the original people living there are now in a rightless position. If someone wants to study if anarchy is a nice government system, then one should look there.
The people holding power there (and that includes e.g. Hamas leaders, PLO leaders, various Israel leaders like from Shas party, or leaders of the settlers) hold part of their power BECAUSE of this conflict. Would the conflict go away, and the area become as boring as e.g. Austria, then their importance would have been reduced.
A powerful group there benefit from the ongoing drama.
One can be a christian believer and not like what the last absolutist monarch of the monarch (the Pope, monarch of the "Holy Chair" in the Vatikan) does. One can even be roman catholic and not like what the catholic church does, e.g. when they shushed sexual abuse of kids.
And so one can be a jew (religious) and not like what the Israel (secular) government does.
Actually, there are LOTS of sects in the jewish religion. One of them, the ultra-orthodox (actual: charedic) living in Israel, are now in the news. They are now supposed to also go to the military. But some subgroups (Neturei Karta and Edah HaChareidis) of them actually deny the existence right of Israel. Jews not liking the state of Israel, if you so will. They claim that Israel can only exist once the Messiah comes back.
So, one can say that these two subgroups "question" the israelic identity. But that is only a minority of them. The majority, e.g. all the millions that demonstrated against "Bibi" Netanjahu know quite well that a national identity and a religious stance / believe are two different things.
In Germany, in the DLF radio program, they have each friday a short news block made by jewish people. And they all the time conflate these two. They claim that people speaking against the Israel government are against jew, or even anti-semitic. Which is nonsense, see the millions of jewish people in Israel that demonstrated against "Bibi" ...
"Ah yes the nice EU experiment" is in a similar vein. I mean, the opposite is true, the EU parliament made it EASIER to shot wolfs:
* https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/woelfe-abschuss-eu-.... * https://www.bmleh.de/SharedDocs/Meldungen/DE/Presse/2025/250...
The first link is about the EU commission AFAIK the council of EU (not sure about the english term. I mean the gremium where representatives of the EU governments meet and decide on matters).
And the 2nd about the EU parliament.
So we have 3 different EU bodies work against the natural spread of wolfs.
They usually think in projects. Some project manager, some funds and some workers are assigned to a specific project. And than this project is followed through. Eventually the project is done (finished or dismissed). And all the allocation shifts to the next project.
This is e.g. the reason why most of the Android phones have so bad security. Even Qualcomm does the Android stuff on their chips only project wise. Is the project done, then you'll get an Linux kernel from 2021 with this specific device. There will never be an update, even if this outdated Linux kernel has 20 known CVEs. The reason is simple: no PM allocated, no funds allocated, no workers allocated.
And such project-thinking also exists for other hardware chips, e.g. network or WIFI chips. Lots of development to get the thing "ready to market" --- which isn't necessarily to get it good --- and then almost nothing.
And this is the hardware the industry automation uses. Except that there some intermediaries in between, e.g. Kontron that make industry-grade boards. But even at that level you have the project structure. These boards are then used by the manufacturers of the industry automation which, who would have thought it, also mostly think in projects.
And this is the reason why the S in IoT stands for security.
People at various levels would need to switch to a process mode, away from project mode. And people at various management levels need find a way on how to sustain this financially.
I know one German retailer from their storage warehouse point of view (not from the actual stores!). I made the operating system of fork lift terminals and visited quite a lot of their warehouses. And inside their warehouse there is zero connection possible to the internet, they are completely shielded. Their firewall ONLY allows connection to their (locally running) warehouse software.
A warehouse usually have LOTS of outdated equipment, security wise. Barcode label printers 15+ years without any firmware update. Voice dictation systems based on Windows XP. Things like that ... but as they closed down any contact to and from these systems to the outside, this is of little interest to them.
I'm living in europe and listen to many political news, both domesstic and abroad. And I never heard anyone saying that they actually want to invade "europe", at least not as a hole.
There are analyzers --- but not at EU "establishment" level, whatever that might be --- that claim that Russia, after 4+ year long regeneration phase after the Ukraine war might invade parts of Estonia. Already they started with some hybrid stuff there, with some new "people's republic Narva" drawn out of a magic hat.
Also, there is no need to "reboot" EU manufacturing. For example, Germany had the highest export numbers it ever had in June, 139 billion euro in just one month.
Other than that: Russia is estimated to have lost 1.5 million people already in this "3 day special military operation". No one in his right mind assumes that they can start another thing like now.
They however have gained LOTS of skills on what works and works not, military. E.g. the trickle-in strategies, glide bombs, drone warfare works. A navy without support, tanks and even airspace superiority attempts don't work.
What e.g. german military generals say is: Russia is already in a hybrid conflict (they didn't use "war" as word) with Germany. One can see this by attempts to destabilize the society, by very high level of espionage (said to be higher than during cold war times), to drone reconnaissance jobs over military AND civil infrastructures (logistics, power, railway etc). And by the odd attack on things here, like people or weapon manufacturers.
Each summer now the atomic plants in France have to shut down (or at least reduce their power) since the rivers don't have enough cooling water anymore. The same happened to a lesser extend in Germany --- lesser extend because we made the wise decision not use bet one atomic plants anymore.
In Germany, the river "Rhein" is in the summer so low on water that tanker ships with oil and diesel can't have to reduce what they carry. As a result, even with out the USA creating yet-again-trouble (this time in the Straits of Hormuz) gas prices at the filling stations are a higher.
The last time I made holiday in upper italy they had warnings that the area 20 km north of these seas (Lago maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago Di Lugano) have too little water and tourists were discouraged to go there.
People know that it won't snow as reliably anymore in the Alps as it used to do. But they see this only as a problem with skying. But it also rains less. The glaciers are reducing each year. Once they are completely gone, the european rivers fed by them will have even less water.
Areas like the Spree from that article aren't however influenced by the Alps. But there you also have less rain. In the center of Germany is the "Edersee". It provides electric power is a nice tourist destination ... and each summer it is intentionally emptied (almost). Because the main job of the sea is to provide enough water for the Weser (a river going to Bremen) so that commercial ships can operate there.