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If the EU wants the US gone they can all withdraw from NATO and take their chances. Right now they are getting very cheap to free military protection and have b
by api 3y ago
If the EU wants the US gone they can all withdraw from NATO and take their chances. Right now they are getting very cheap to free military protection and have been for like 80 years.
Also Germany screwed itself by shutting down its nuclear fleet before its renewable/storage fleet was ready to match that supply, not to mention becoming increasingly dependent on imported gas for two decades while literally everyone (but Gazprom) told them this was idiotic. Germany's wounds are self-inflicted. They set themselves up to be completely dependent on someone for energy.
Don't worry America has lots of self-inflicted wounds too, like the second Iraq war.
- boffinAudio 3y agoThe idea that Germany has the autonomy to stand up to America's military junta is just plain false. It simply doesn't have the agency as a nation state, to do so. Germany screwed itself by allowing itself to remain a client state of the USA after WW2 and during the entire cold war, and by not wrestling control of its intelligence services away from the CIA, which still runs it today, and through which the entire political classes of the German state are subjugated. Besides which, Energy inter-dependence between modern states is only a bad thing if you're not participating in the transaction. Obviously, the USA doesn't care about Germanys' energy dependence one bit, now that the USA is reaping billions of dollars of profit from the Germans for filthy energy supplies ..
- rini17 3y agoFrance tried hard to not be a client state, ended up the same as Germany. That's self inflicted too?
- boffinAudio 3y agoDefinitely. The US' intelligence apparatus is capable of subverting every Western democracy. This is by design.