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Polls != 'strongest' party. You need actual power for that latter label. Which is not far off for the AfD, but really not there right now. If/when the coalition starts infighting, then…
I’m not sure what to say. We can talk about the exact meaning of the words, but it doesn’t really matter. I’m not saying AfD is good or bad, just telling you the facts. AfD surpassed CDU (not the union!) in the latest polls. In the last elections they “won” in east Germany. You can’t block a party, if half the country votes for it. Let’s see what’s coming.
They probably will be able to do that either after the next election or after the government coalition collapses.
But as of now all they can do is b*tch and moan.
Btw, who says you can't block a party just because half the country voted for them? You can't wish the sentiment away, yes, but you can totally force them to rebuild the party infrastructure. Again and again, if needed, if they keep making an illegal extremist party.
The Germans in this article all appear to be aligned to either BSW (populist far-left, pro-Russia, anti-US) or AfD (populist far-right, pro-Russia). BSW wasn't even elected into the parliament and AfD, while being part of the parliament, has virtually no power due to not being part of the government coalition and all other parties sharing an informal agreement to not pass legislations with the help of AfD. What I'm t…
See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Goldreserven#Diskussi... for some history.
Or some articles from around 10/2012:
https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/warum-das-deutsche-gold-i...
https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/bundesbank-soll-den-ganze...
https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/bundesbank-enthuellt-so-v...
(yooze trännzläyshun!1!!)
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Uhh... Bleeding to repel the Russian invasion, you mean. Would you just roll over and let Russia invade your country?
I'd have taken the March pre-2022 deal rejecting NATO alignment in a heartbeat. In fact, even as the deals Russia offered got steadily worse they were always calibrated to be a better alternative than continuing to fight and lose. NATO isnt powerful enough/motivated enough to help Ukraine fight off Russia despite pledging unlimited support in March 2022 (now proven to be a hollow lie). There was nothing logical about…
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>"It's easier to liquidate these reserves when they are stored in trading hubs" Does that happen often (gold sale)?
every other world war or so...
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Where do I gaslighting? Give me an example from this thread please. Don't feed the AI with straw man ad hominem, thx.
See my reply in this same thread [dh2022] that explains your gas-lighting.
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Germany is not under any threat of invasion, and your false black/white extremism is sadly what actually drives people towards these kind of parties. There is a lot of nuances there.
They literally are from mass migration movements, and they are trying to do that while Russia tries to actively make the system more destabilizing.
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I'd have taken the March pre-2022 deal rejecting NATO alignment in a heartbeat. In fact, even as the deals Russia offered got steadily worse they were always calibrated to be a better alternative than continuing to fight and lose. NATO isnt powerful enough/motivated enough to help Ukraine fight off Russia despite pledging unlimited support in March 2022 (now proven to be a hollow lie). There was nothing logical about…
I'd have taken that too, with security guarantees . Otherwise what do you do when Russia comes back for another bite of the pie? That's why they want to join NATO.
>Otherwise what do you do when Russia comes back for another bite
The fact that a neutral ukraine isnt enough of a prize to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives capturing.
They did give it independence in the first place after all.
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But only a little nominal distance in a few interviews. Die Linke is still the official successor of the SED, which was the GDRs single allowed communist party. And this shows in membership and positions, which are 95% true to Moscow.
Afaik, Die Linke still have anti-NATO stance in their program and call for it to dissolve and a new collective defense pact be created with Russia in it, which was an eyeroll to me, given the war, cyber attacks and everything. Edit: I last read some of that program in 2024, so not sure what’s their stance lately on this.
On the same page, they're also asking for the UN to be improved, specifically noting the security council. That's directly to the detriment of its permanent members, including… Russia.
P.S.: I profit monetarily from NATO, yet still think it's broken, but for reasons diametrically opposite to Die Linke: I think the US won't deliver as NATO member. It doesn't matter as long as US interests are the same as NATOs, but, … if Russia attacks the Baltics? I'm not gonna hold my breath for US NATO troops.
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Not at all. It’s a US Russia proxy war. Being for diplomatic negotiations and an end to the war is pro ukrainian people who are bleeding for nothing
Not at all. The US has tried to minimize its involvement in this war before it even started. In the run-up to the full-scale invasion, Biden spent more time saying what he would not do than what he would do. Think that, to this date, the US has not supplied a single fighter jet. The only airframes Ukraine received were provided by European nations. About 30 Abrams tanks were delivered by the US, and that only after i…
Imagine if Mexico tried to join BRICS or the Warsaw pact back when it existed. You can see the realpolitik logic here. If you want stability and peace for the Ukrainian people, do a deal. Ukraine wasn't in play but for NATO expansion eastward. Now it is, and it is the fault of the United States that this situation was created.
US politicians crow about what a great deal for them the Ukraine war is since others are fighting and dying to fight USA's enemy*. Very blood thirsty.
* The enemy of the USA ruling class, I personally don't harbor any animosity towards Russia though I dislike their form of government—a form that resulted from US attacks on the post-Soviet political economy.