[Leaning Right]

> Poland responds by demanding $1 trillion in WW2 reparations from Germany. <

Excellent! So there still are feisty and bold men left in Europe. But unfortunately for the continent as a whole, those bold men are all in Eastern Europe.

[JamesP81]

Excellent! So there still are feisty and bold men left in Europe. But unfortunately for the continent as a whole, those bold men are all in Eastern Europe.

A lot of it is mere survival. Those of Eastern Europe tend to hate communism and fascism in that special, fiery way that only those who have suffered under its boot can.

We should be rethinking some of our closer alliances. Germany is obviously unreliable at this point. We need to be cultivating Poland, the Czechs, Austria, and Hungary. They are now the bulwark that stands against Russian aggression in the East, and especially Islamic aggression from the Middle East.