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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by watwut on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:09AM (#46288055)
> Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?

Cause they started two world wars previously. The second one coupled with genocide, actually multiple separate genocides going on at the same time.

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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by OgsyedIE on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:17AM (#46288134)
Germany only started the second and all parties in the first had some prior experience with conducting a genocide.
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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by watwut on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:31AM (#46299908)
They started the first one too. They just did. Their politics was split roughly into two camps - war hawks wanting to start the war now and moderates wanting to wait for a year and then start a war.

It is not that other countries were full of saints ... but Germany did started both those wars.

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