If you ask me - No, politicians never learn anything. They are motivated by ideology (Macron and Ursula Von der Leyen still talk about open borders) and short t

If you ask me - No, politicians never learn anything. They are motivated by ideology (Macron and Ursula Von der Leyen still talk about open borders) and short term gains. But that is normal in democracy. Crisis always looks like a mess. Like the begining of WWI in France and UK. Permanent political crisis, quarels in parliaments, governments falling, hysteria, royal family changing name, generals fighting each other. Until today no one knows who started Marne counter offensive. What matters is that someone did.