That's just one example. The evidence of this has long been clear to anybody watching the space.
While they usually try to pretend everything is awesome in public, they are clearly in a shit position.
Arianespace has already publicly stated they need more political help (after just getting 3.5+ billion $). There have been a whole storm of demands that all European institutional costumers should be forced onto the Ariane.
The Germany military was politically attacked for launching on Falcon 9 (that was when they still didn't take SpaceX seriously).
Politicians, ESA bureaucrats and people from the European industry have all essentially said the same stuff with a different spin depending on their position.
German and European journalist who are not just institutional PR printers have had a field day calling them out on their idiotic statements they made about SpaceX between 2014 and 2019.
While they usually try to pretend everything is awesome in public, they are clearly in a shit position.
Arianespace has already publicly stated they need more political help (after just getting 3.5+ billion $). There have been a whole storm of demands that all European institutional costumers should be forced onto the Ariane.
The Germany military was politically attacked for launching on Falcon 9 (that was when they still didn't take SpaceX seriously).
Politicians, ESA bureaucrats and people from the European industry have all essentially said the same stuff with a different spin depending on their position.
German and European journalist who are not just institutional PR printers have had a field day calling them out on their idiotic statements they made about SpaceX between 2014 and 2019.