Posted on 03/04/2025 7:43:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Euros were always providing lots of cash as aid to Ukraine.
And sending even more money to Russia for their oil and gas.
The change now is the Euros will be investing in military industries, and their own militaries. If all goes as stated.
At the expense of US defense exports and good American jobs. But that’s what we want, apparently. A multi polar world has real costs for Americans. That some are too dull to understand that matters not.
The history of German industrial development and its close association with the German state.
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OK, but not all German industry was weapons, no? Cars, electronics, chemicals, rocketry, machines, planes, food processing...........
The big thing early on for Krupp/Essen was railroads, and that too was caught up in state priorities.
I wish I had the endurance to read it again.
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