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If they can’t manage the diverse interests of Europe, how do they expect to govern the even greater diveristy of the political and geographical globe?
And why the mad rush to globalize. The European states grew at the pace the European states could withstand; America grew in its own way. WHY WHY WHY must the statists/globalists move so fast. In a hundred years, two hundred years globalism may be the best idea. But right now it is not, and rushing and forcing it unnaturally will couse unnecessary pain and suffering to segments of the population (ala the NAZIs).
Someone always gets left behind on a forced march. Best hope it isn’t you or the things you love.
Homogeneity rather than diversity was their strength. It produced a culture which in turn produced superior weapons, exceptional staff work, unit cohesion and morale that lasted until the very end. Those are the strengths of homogeneity. It's weakness is expressed in an absence of ability to correct error, to see the grotesque moral failings and correct them but to lurch without check into excess.
In the end it was the weaknesses inherent from the beginning which caused them to lose the war.
Not exactly. It's more the case that the slacker nations are standing toe to toe mit dem Deutschen Adler, reaching in his pocket and sneering in his face, saying "You owe us, you Feathery Teutonic Bastard!"
Meme FAIL. One would think boring bloggers would be able to come up with something a little more imaginative than the old NAZI saw by now...