revisit: Rewrote the "why this matters to you" hook.

2026-08-19T18:00:00+02:00

Operator decision, 2026-08-19: whyItMatters.outcome is now the page's primary hook and every analysis was rewritten to a single short, concrete, human-stakes sentence (docs/EDITORIAL.md, Permanent standards #4) — replacing several that had grown into full paragraphs or abstract policy-thesis phrasing. (Germany solved its financing constraint on rearmament well before it solved its execution constraint — and the gap between the two, not the topline euro figure, is now the thing to watch → Germany found the money for rearmament fast. Finding the soldiers and the factories is taking years longer.)

Germany freed defense spending from its debt limit — now it's racing to spend what it unlocked — updates

revisit: Rewrote the "why this matters to you" hook.