Re:Open letter to German readers: What you were never told a...
by teamhappy on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:39PM
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> Just a suggestion: before Germans start telling other people to get over the idea of having any control over their own affairs, it would probably be wise to reflect on how well that message went over the last two times they tried it.
You should have gone with how we suck up the the US all the time; that would have been a way better put down. Given what went on in Greece over the last couple of years, I'd recommend you drop the nazi references for the time being.
Re:Open letter to German readers: What you were never told a...
by anextio on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:09PM
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Indeed. There are many better examples of post-war soft power projection through economic meddling that this case could be compared to.
Not the nazis. They are far on the other side of the economic meddling coin.
Re:Open letter to German readers: What you were never told a...
by peterfirefly on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:20PM
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If you really mean "the last two times" and not "the last time", you should probably read some history books that were not meant for school children.
If the only practical effect of European union will be to enrich Germany at the expense of its neighbors, European union will fail, and rightly so.
> I appreciate that he needs to sell his own agency to his people, but if he actually believes he can control the fate of his country even so slightly, I'm afraid he's delusional.
Just a suggestion: before Germans start telling other people to get over the idea of having any control over their own affairs, it would probably be wise to reflect on how well that message went over the last two times they tried it.