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Please do try to substantiate this with numbers.
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There are wonderful parallels with Wilhelm II of Germany. It just takes one idiot at the top with no understanding of his own failings to undermine decades of careful diplomacy and policy.
In a functioning democracy, this should not be possible. There should be check and balances. Reading a bit about Wilhelm II: so many parallels indeed. "Dreamt of a great colonial power", had to deal with some form of democracy, making incoherent replies, ... And more.
No it should definitely be possible in a functioning democracy (and is because it happened in one). It would not be possible with an educated electorate. But that's different from what you said
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Yes, but it won't matter. The state energy firms of EU countries are going heavily into debt to survive this crisis, and it'll just turn from "paying high electricity prices because oil is expensive" to "paying high energy prices to repay state debt". I mean it'll help in the sense that energy supply will switch to renewable sources, sure. Great for the climate, hopefully, But it won't help in lowering energy cost. A…
> The state energy firms of EU countries Which state energy firms? Most countries have mostly privatized generation with just the grid in public ownership. EDF is something of an exception, but they have very different economics (and the nuclear fleet). > "paying high energy prices to repay state debt" The whole range of general taxation is available for that. > A bunch of states have already started pretty heavily t…
Through various methods the EU is subsidizing the increased cost of fuel for a large number of customers, including electricity prices and gas prices.
e.g. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
The issue is that this is very expensive and EU countries are going deeper into debt to finance this.
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#175> But the U.S. has made it clear that it wants to concentrate on the Indo-Pacific and the threat posed by China's powerful military, rather than propping up Europe. If that were true they wouldn't have wasted enormous amounts of expensive ammunition in Iran.
Our serious adversaries like China must love that we're focusing so much on the Middle East. They don't even have to get directly involved for it to be expensive and fruitless for us, in fact they make money selling weapons. Should be a national priority to banish the Israeli lobby from the US.
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So no more US military bases in Europe then? No more trade with a market of 500 million people? No more cooperation on science and research? Nothing of the current US isolationism makes any goddamn longterm sense for the US. Europe and the rest of the world will be fine, mostly. Just please don't start any wars that mess up the global economy like you just did. Thanks.
You don't need a military alliance to have trade.
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If we’re comparing Nazis, can we include both sides of the Atlantic?
I wasn't comparing Nazis but the reality. Maybe that's your narrative
You were comparing to 1920s Germany preparing for war, and it's not about Nazis?? It's not even that I disagree, it's just, you clearly meant this and then acted like someone is silly to interpret it that way.
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Technically they said they "loosed" them, which arguably could be true. Maybe.
I thought he meant loose, as in create two world wars
Yeah, that's probably just a typo, but you could argue that German engineering gave Germany the ability to "loose" war on the world.
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Europe sans Russia does not produce uranium - why people constantly paint this as an independent energy source is beyond me. Of all Russian energy companies, it was Rosatom that could not be sanctioned.
> Europe sans Russia does not produce uranium Kazakhstan is by far the largest uranium producer in the world and has a leg in Europe, west of the Ural river. The important thing is that there are more stable partners worldwide for uranium than Russia is for oil and gas. There are deposits in Europe, the respective countries decided not to exploit them [0]. This could change depending on external pressures. [0] https:…
Oh great, another country for Russia to take back.