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.
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 sun wasn’t “setting on the british empire” anywhere near the 1st world war. It was the losses of WW2 that forced England to give up its empire.