If ‘adult-leadership’ out of Berlin had been exercised in 2013 to today, then de Maiziere’s comments wouldn’t be required.
I have my doubts that the sixteen states will agree on this topic. There’s no guarantee that the national and centralized security apparatus would not be run by some incompetent idiot, and make matters worse.
If you bring up this idea of bringing Bundeswehr soldiers onto some kind of street duty...most Germans don’t have a problem with a short-term order and a focused effort. If you said that you were sending out 25,000 of such troops for a 90-day duty, then the public would be asking questions and probably not so accepting of the idea.
One could probably write a book over the thousand-odd mistakes made in Germany since this all started.
I keep hearing that the notion of Bundeswehr soldiers patrolling the streets is still an uncrossable line in Germany. And it is troubling to hear the higher-ups in government favoring it so strongly.