[Jeff Chandler]

A commenter made a good point: The Germans have been pacified into girly men; they are old and don’t the stomach for conquest.

[Jeff Chandler]

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[happyathome]

“The Germans have been pacified into girly men”

Good point. Thinking about it in geopolitical terms, the Germans and other northern europeans should realize that they have to stay engaged in the Mediterranean region out of self interest. If they carve out a new, shrunken EU and abandon the southern tier, those abandoned nations are going to succumb to massive migration/invasion from north africa, and pretty soon the northern europeans will be facing a tidal wave on their own borders. They should make their defense on the beaches, not the Alps - better to fight the fight on Italian territory or in the Balkans than wait until the tidal wave hits Bavaria.

[decimon]

A commenter made a good point: The Germans have been pacified into girly men; they are old and don’t the stomach for conquest.

There weren't any comments when I first posted but they now may become a good discussion.

My crystal ball is too cloudy to know if German demographics will proceed as now or if it matters. The German military was so successful in WWII because it fought a new kind of war. It could again.

[Fiji Hill]

A commenter made a good point: The Germans have been pacified into girly men; they are old and don’t the stomach for conquest.

In his book Germany and the East-West Crisis (New York: McKay, 1959)Willi Schlamm observed that such an attitude was already taking hold among the German equivalent of the Baby Boomers during the 1950's.

[FW190]

The Germans have been pacified into girly men; they are old and don’t the stomach for conquest.

Don't overload your rowboat a$$. You have no idea what we're capable of.

[Hillbillary]