[.cnI redruM]

The finance ministers of France and Germany and their minimum corporate taxes remind me of "Fair Traders" in our country who favor trade agreements only if they include price supports for inefficient industries.

I think as long as France and Germany have the military firepower to at least partially help in places like Checkoslavakia and Yugoslavia, these smaller and weaker nations will put up with their hegemony and just take it and pay up.

On balance, this situation will remain stable for at least 30 or so years. Sort of like Metternich's Concert of Europe. This is particularly true if both the US and Great Britain play along with France and Germany.

[expatpat]

On balance, this situation will remain stable for at least 30 or so years. Sort of like Metternich's Concert of Europe

I don't think it will last that long. The course of events moves much faster now than in the 19thC, especially that part of the 19thC.