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Kojo's avatar

I think you are skipping over valuable lessons of European history, if you dismiss local competition.

Germany has since WW II been bascially a vassal of the US on a continent that was basically still militarily occupied, including Germany, deliberately disarmed and kept under it's thumb, while Britain and France, on the victorious side in WW II were more armed, and even have nuclear weapons.

Now not only is the US scaling down its presence, but what is happening? The us is platforming slavic countries like Ukraine and Poland to be its military bulwarks in Europe. The US even stripped Germany of its cheap Russia gas via the Nordstream. Now Norway is the energy powerhouse in Europe, and its gas terminal on the contient is......Poland.

Poland is also now the biggest army in Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/9766/Artykul/3403981,poland-ranks-third-in-nato-for-military-strength-aims-to-be-top-in-europe

These are countries that Germany traditionally considered to be its inferiors.

Germany is now determined to be armed and to, as its leaders keep saying "take its rightful place in Europe".

But yet Germany can never dominate a nuclear armed Russia that has a close alliance with China, although Russia is given as the supposed excuse. So ultimately what we are left with its a more belligenrent and armed Germany seeking to show its nearby neighbours that IT is the top dog around here. And that's under the so called German centrists, who are inevitably going to be shoved out of power by a growing AFD. Sounds familiar? Do we know how this ends?

It's absolute folly and overlooking history to ignore when Germans start using such terms and rearming. As a famous philisopher once said: history maybe doesnt repeat exact lines, but it sure rhymes a hell of a lot!

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David's avatar

Europe thought that the U.S. would honor its commitment to Article 5, an attack on one member is an attack on all. However Trump doesn’t respect any agreement and he wants to attack other Nato members himself.

Europe has no choice but to defend itself.

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