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| Europe |
| The Great German Meltdown |
| 2018-05-25 |
| h/t Instapundit Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany’s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939‐and increasingly in the present‐usually bear the brunt of this national meltdown. Germany is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, its financial leader, and its trusted and responsible political center. Often it plays those roles superbly. But recently, it’s been cracking up‐in a way that is hauntingly familiar to its European neighbors. On mass immigration, it is beginning to terrify the nearby nations of Eastern Europe. On Brexit, it bullies the British. On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans. On Russia, it irks the Baltic States and makes the Scandinavians uneasy by doing business with the Russian energy interests. And on all matters American, it increasingly seems incensed. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 "We killed God at Magdeburg" (Video) |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-05-25 19:58 |
| #8 Always does with the Hun. |
| Posted by: Zorba Ghibelline3135 2018-05-25 18:06 |
| #7 Somehow I imagine that at some point the Arabs in Germany will push to far and we'll see the Germans snap again, and all of that industriousness that is the German character will be turned to revenge of sorts. The difference being that this time most of the world will stay out of the way. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-25 18:04 |
| #6 It all leads to war... |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2018-05-25 16:08 |
| #5 The article has its bizarre moments. Treating Germany as a monolithic entity, homogeneous from top to bottom. A Bavarian is a Brandenburger is a Silesian. Another problem can be the result of "No consensus" in a Parliamentary country. The country wanders rudderless because to make a ruling coalition the deals must be struck and lesser, radical groups demand a hand at the helm. The Greens want "No Nukes', for example, and to the Inner Circle it is a price easier to pay than exile to minority status... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-05-25 15:04 |
| #4 On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans. Here I disagree. The Euro was imposed on Germany by France after reunification. The Maastricht treaty turned out to be a scheme for enabling southern European loan fraud on a gigantic scale. When the fraud was exposed it turned into an economic suicide pact. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-05-25 14:49 |
| #3 Merkel is a piece of Dreck. Just who the heck does she think she is allowing over a million "immigrants" into Europe without one European country having any say in the matter? Penalize Italy or Hungary for her decision (with help from Brussels)? Sickening. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-05-25 12:29 |
| #2 If Germans can't get along with Jews, how in the hell do they expect to co-exist with Muslims? Hitler managed to do it, why not Merkel? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-25 11:28 |
| #1 If Germans can't get along with Jews, how in the hell do they expect to co-exist with Muslims? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-05-25 11:21 |