Europe, beware of the Germans
Posted on 10/23/2011 10:51:37 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Edited on 10/23/2011 1:40:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
European leaders are at a crossroads: They must pull closer together or risk the euro currency project falling apart.
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Europe, beware of the Germans
The Germans have been the bulwark of the European economy since before the first world war, as the sun was setting on the British Empire. They are consistently the most intelligent, creative, hardest working SOB’s on that continent. If the rest of the world and Europe in particular hadn’t played the guilt trip on the Germans for as long as they have over the past 70 years, they’d be, de facto, running the European economy. The problem is they’re supporting all the weak sisters, some of which are on respirators and need to take a dirt nap and allow markets to correct themselves. Yes, it will be ugly, and yes there will be ramifications, but that’s what happens when systems correct themselves. Don’t anyone out there kid themselves, we’re next in the process. There will be a new world economic order, the sooner it’s corrected the stronger we and Europe will be, back to a fighting weight, so as to compete more readily.
Baloney. The US is better off with a strong resurgent Germany. It will be a counter weight to Russia. The Euro is dying anyway so we might as well accept the fact that the German economy will dominate the post Euro world. What we need to do IMHO is strengthen our military ties with Poland and the Baltic States so that Germany and Russia do not get to snugly. Besides, the southern Europeans are headed for a severe depression and instability. We don’t need them to drag down Germany.
No denying though, those lads had snappy uniforms.
euro currency project all projects come to an end... no country was more devastated by the war than Germany, yet, they still had to bail out all the socialist countries since then
guess it's time that comes to an end also
They've been there since 2009. You're a bit too late on that score. Doing some research into the intent of the European Union ought to confirm a few more things for you as well.
What we need to do IMHO is strengthen our military ties with Poland and the Baltic States so that Germany and Russia do not get to snugly
Bullshit. The Germans have been the power of Europe since the Roman Empire, despite the combined efforts of the rest of Europe to keep them down. German militarism was the product of this, with disasterous results for everybody. If the Germans are expected to pay for everybody else’s mistakes, as well as their own, they should have the deciding vote in what Europe does.
In Athens, protesters dressed up as Nazis routinely prowl the streets, an allusion to the old model of an assertive Germany.
Unlike other countries that had global ambitions since the 1920s, Germany has not denied what it has caused and the destruction it brought upon itself. Japanese school children are not taught about WWII, and the Italians are trying hard to wipe it from their history. The Turks are ignoring it and the Russians are rewriting their history during the Stalin purges. Germans don’t want to go through this again. The average German is hard working and very industrious. However, they also don’t want to just hand over their money without having some say in where it goes, how it gets spent, and how it gets repaid. I don’t blame them at all. (Disclaimer; I was stationed in Southern Germany (Bavaria) for 3 years and got to know the locals pretty good.)
“The Germans have been the power of Europe since the Roman Empire...”
Hee hee, you’re silly. What’s a “Rome”? Everyone knows history began on Sept. 1, 1939. /s
“The Germans have been the power of Europe since the Roman Empire...”
Hee hee, you’re silly. What’s a “Rome”? Everyone knows history began on Sept. 1, 1939. /s
BTTT for both of your posts.
The “one-world” (i.e. Communists who won WWII) have done the same with all the hard-working, intelligent ones — including those in the Baltics.
The whole of Western Europe embraces national socialism as an economic model against the will of "thinking European conservatives" and then turns around to complain about the Germans?!?!?
One of my favorite quotes: “NATO was created to keep the Germans down, the Americans in and the Russians out.”
The deep irony is that Greece is much like the socialist Nazi Germany of the 30s expecting a Germany that is more like the U. S. of the Marshall Plan era to save them while simultaneously slurring their benefactors.
"Transportation Corps" (wearing tankers helmets), "Glider Pilots" (future Luftwaffe) and others strutting down the streets of Nuremberg. I've watched it a couple of times because of the masterful film techniques, but always wondered how many of those guys survived the war.
If you watch, notice how the Navy and some Army officers still used the traditional salute instead of the one the Nazis used.
I wondered when the German basher would arrive. Somewhat late but he'll make up with it with BS.
Yeah, where is he?
I wondered when the German basher would arrive. Somewhat late but he'll make up with it with BS
Wasn't something of this sort to be expected if Greeks and others wanted all the perks of a French or German lifestyle while producing far less than the historic core of the EU does?
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