Posted on 11/07/2024 6:01:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
After years of internal strife, it was a dispute about economic policy that finally toppled the German government. Now Europe is facing months of political paralysis just as its many simmering crises are coming to a boil.
With both France and Germany led by minority governments, the continent’s key powers are facing months of impotent introspection as challenges pile up, from a hostile second Trump administration to the economic headwinds from China and Russia’s steady advances in Ukraine.
The political currents tossing governments across Europe are similar to those that propelled Donald Trump to win back the presidency, the Senate and very possibly the House. Voters on both sides of the Atlantic are in a restive mood, unhappy with the economy and unimpressed by politicians’ efforts to control a surge in illegal immigration.
But while America’s overall economy is strong, Europe’s recovery from its recent economic shocks has been lackluster, especially in the industrial heartlands of Germany.
“Germany’s economic model is broken. Europe’s entire relationship with the U.S. is being redefined,” said Sudha David-Wilp, Berlin office director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “[Berlin] needs to make decisions and back these with money to adapt. And it doesn’t have much time.”
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Alles ist kaputt
Maybe they can find a little Austrian guy to straighten them out. Springtime for Germany!
Biden and Harris are available to start working in Germany on Jan 20.
They think being asked to pay their fair share is hostility. They should pay for all of it not just a share. We don’t need a share. Funny liberals want us to pay our fair share of taxes but they want us to pay for all of NATO and the UN.
They should turn their nuclear power plants back on.
Springtime for hitler and Germany!
Mel Brooks approves.
Maybe biden and harris can be guest dancers on the show “Sprockets”.
Mike Myers H/T.
They should make Trump Reichsführer. He can deport for them too.
They should turn their nuclear power plants back on
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Maybe start buying Vlad’s cheap oil and energy again? ….the West’s blowing up the Nord stream pipeline backfired, no surprise. When the Germans figure out what senile Joe and company did to them, they will be very, very angry.
Zeit, die Köpfe aus den Arschlöchern zu holen.
Ja, das ist sehr wahr
Who cares about chaos in a moslem country?
The more internal dissention, the better...
May I suggest Poland lead Europe, instead?
Dear dems:
du hast den Krieg verloren!
CC
Not with their current leadership. Hungary is the best bet.
On the car subject (I have 20-odd years of living around Germany)...about half of the US brands/models....are considered to be crap.
Over the past decade, Jeep has finally gotten to some level of acceptance and you see the models daily in Germany now. Several Japanese/South Korean models are ‘making’ it now. I’d even go and say that pick-ups from the US are finally starting to be acceptable.
A rudderless Europe needs to update its charts. The world just changed.
MORE THIRD WORLD UNEDUCATED illiterate violent African and Muslims, stat. It has worked so great.
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