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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by kergonath on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:10AM (#43567897)
Both the French and the Poles are urging Germany to rearm. As well as the EU, actually, through both the commission and the parliament. The whole "European countries are afraid of Germany invading" argument is not really a thing.
Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by kergonath on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:33AM (#43570263)
For context: the French and the German have been alternatively at war and allies since the times of Clovis and Charlemagne, a millenium before Bismark made modern Germany a thing (in occupied Versailles, in what was perfectly calibrated to be a complete French humiliation). And the Poles were on the wrong side of brutal occupation and a genocide during WWII. So both countries would have good reasons to be very skeptical of a powerful Germany.