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Victor Davis Hanson: Is Germany Becoming Germany — Again?
NRO ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/05/2019 3:37:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: RoosterRedux

It was a big mistake to allow East and West Germany to reunite.


21 posted on 06/05/2019 5:00:04 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: RoosterRedux

Short answer....yes.


22 posted on 06/05/2019 5:01:07 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Jim Noble

It bears repeating.


23 posted on 06/05/2019 5:02:32 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: RoosterRedux

Merkel is a c**t and needs to be put down.


24 posted on 06/05/2019 5:04:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Achilles Heel for Germany is the influx of Muslim immigrants. Merkel thinks she can control them. That’s like inviting the AIDS virus to attend the sexual orgy you’ve scheduled for the upcoming weekend.


25 posted on 06/05/2019 5:05:25 AM PDT by moovova
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To: RoosterRedux

This time with muslims instead of Aryan Nazi skinheads.

And this time Christians as well as Jews.

And the muslims are even more bloodthirsty than the Nazis.


26 posted on 06/05/2019 5:08:26 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("There just ain't no substitute for cubic inches..." --Carroll Shelby)
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To: RoosterRedux

Germany / EU bump for later.....


27 posted on 06/05/2019 5:43:23 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: RoosterRedux

I think in one way Merkle is correct.

The USA is pulling away from Europe and will no longer protect them or bribe them to play nice with each other. We want Europe to start acting like adults.

That may be a big ask. But that is the way it is.
AMF-YOYO.


28 posted on 06/05/2019 5:43:38 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: Londo Molari

Germany has 200 main battle tanks and less than 75 operational jet aircraft. Poland would kick their butts and march across Germany for a change.


29 posted on 06/05/2019 5:45:16 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: DownInFlames

I was stationed in Germany from 1993-97.

My German friends, over a few schnapps and Bitburgers, asked me with the Soviet Union no longer a threat, why were we still here?

I answered as you said. “To keep YOU in check.” They didn’t like to hear that! So I told them we could move all our bases to Poland. They didn’t like that, either!


30 posted on 06/05/2019 5:48:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The European elites are living in their own intellectual bubble, like the American Left/Progressive/Liberals. They cannot see what everyone around them sees. That THEY are the problem.

Germany & France, through the mechanisms of the EU are again becoming the bullies in Europe.


31 posted on 06/05/2019 5:52:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: RoosterRedux

This has been the case for a long time. I first lived in Germany in the early 90s. It was clear even then that that rotten 68er generation which was and still is ascendant over there were no allies of America.

It did not matter that America was and still is defending them, nor that America is a western democracy, nor that America provided massive aid to help them rebuild after WWII, twisted the arms of the other Europeans to trade and do business with them when none wanted to, which gave them their constitution, nor that it was once again America which persuaded various skeptics in Europe - INCLUDING FRANCE - to not oppose reunification.

None of that mattered then nor matters today. They are not allies, can not be counted on at all and wish to use anti Americanism to help unify the continent under their control. Furthermore, be it Iran or Cuba or Saddam’s Iraq, they seek to undermine US foreign policy at every turn while making some profit on the side. The sooner Americans recognized that the Yurps in general but most especially the Germans are not our allies and started treating them as such, the better.

This comes from a partly German American who speaks the language and lived there twice.


32 posted on 06/05/2019 5:56:50 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RoosterRedux
VDH is one of the few good things left at National Review.

And Merkel is a genius. Her predecessors wasted precious German lives in their attempted violent takeover of Europe. But Merkel uses "Asians" to do it. :)

33 posted on 06/05/2019 6:00:50 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: wbarmy

I think we would be better off keeping our people here, and with that we wouldn’t have to spend the money to keep so much there.


34 posted on 06/05/2019 6:05:28 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: RoosterRedux

Germany is the Core of the EU. There is no EU without Germany.


35 posted on 06/05/2019 6:06:13 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Right. Nazis weren’t defeated in WW2. We got rid of hitler for them. Thus freeing them of his uncontrolled insanity. Nazis have been able to clean up their act and take over Europe economically - and nearly also control most of Europe politically using the guise of the EU. And, of course, Nazis always were infested within British and American governmental / ruling circles ( as is clear with Corbyn and the Foreign Ministry. Etc. and in the USA Snake Department and Democratic Party controlling machine ). Once they take control anywhere, it’s almost impossible to Drain the Swamp. Just look at how much resistance EU and Soroznazi’s front organizations have been raising against Brexit - and they’re winning so far, too. Just look at USA where PDJT campaigned to Drain the Swamp 3 years ago — how many Nazis and commies have been removed in all that time ? Almost none despite pdjt’s best intentions.


36 posted on 06/05/2019 6:07:55 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RoosterRedux

Sounds like VDH has been reading Peter Zeihan.


37 posted on 06/05/2019 6:10:24 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: RoosterRedux

Merkel sees the EU as the new incarnation of the “Fourth Reich”


38 posted on 06/05/2019 6:12:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: wbarmy

It’s been time for that since the early 90s.

Our foreign policy has been on auto pilot since 1991 when the Cold War ended. We need to radically alter course in a number of ways. Stop meddling everywhere, totally revamp our immigration laws to only take useful people who will integrate, withdraw from NATO, demand trade reciprocity with everyone and back that up with tariffs until they’re ready to accept reciprocal trade agreements, etc. drop the Utopianism. Look out for our own national interests.


39 posted on 06/05/2019 6:13:07 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Mr. K

Nancy Pelosi sees herself as Angela Merkel


40 posted on 06/05/2019 6:18:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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