In a highly interesting interview with Glenn Diesen on EU belligerency toward Russia, the German member of the European Parliament Michael von der Schulenburg makes the following observations:
Great interview, but after watching it, still shaking my head over the motivation behind all this madness. Hoping for the "best case scenario:" a desperate and unpopular ruling class on its last legs making sure they can throw a couple trillion to the investor class via the defense industry. But do agree, I'd rather my young adult conscription-age children also not wait until it's too late to find out.
vaguely aware, but thank you for mentioning this! it does not mean, however, that there's much unity among the various blocs and member states in the EU. hopefully there's enough opposition to counter the sickening clamouring for war - Russia is not Europe's enemy!
Germany is responsible for the economic mess the EU is in today and also the UK. Germany drove the way the euro is set up with the ECB and Germany was behind pressing for the Austerity policy. Austerity never works but only ever produces the opposite result. Tax increases and cuts in spending deepen a recession and especially when all countries are doing the same at the same time it creates a downward spiral.
This is why the value of the EU economy 17 years ago was 90% of the US economy. Today it is worth only 65%. That is a drop of nearly one third. The UK under the Conservative government also pursued Austerity when that was unnecessary.
It was agreed in the G20 on Toronto in June 2010 after the Germans lobbied in advance of the meeting for Austerity to be adopted.
How can the whole of Europe be seeming run by people who don't know what they are doing?
See "EU's Monsieur Bonkers of Brussels Caused UK's Potholed Roads - [and more] Tuesday, 25 February 2025"
I am part German myself, and with many German friends. You should know many Germans today agree with German supremacy. The more humble Germans just want the immigrants out of what is rightfully their country. The other, more dangerous faction, are the Globalist hypocrites who pretend to accept immigrants and simply want to rule them.
The Europeans are trying to compete with the US and in this lust have screwed themselves. Only to be expected that the Germans would look to install other Germans in positions of power, their arrogance over their supremacy is not gone.
Well, not all of course. There are also many humble, critical Germans who are as disgusted by what is transpiring as you. Von der Schulenburg is a good example. A large proportion of the readers of this Substack are German, by the way. (Around 15%.) But probably so for those in power in Brussels and Berlin, I'm afraid...
I’ve been calling it Grosspreussen without any of the good parts for a while now. And I resemble that remark about 50-somethings.
Great interview, but after watching it, still shaking my head over the motivation behind all this madness. Hoping for the "best case scenario:" a desperate and unpopular ruling class on its last legs making sure they can throw a couple trillion to the investor class via the defense industry. But do agree, I'd rather my young adult conscription-age children also not wait until it's too late to find out.
vaguely aware, but thank you for mentioning this! it does not mean, however, that there's much unity among the various blocs and member states in the EU. hopefully there's enough opposition to counter the sickening clamouring for war - Russia is not Europe's enemy!
Germany is responsible for the economic mess the EU is in today and also the UK. Germany drove the way the euro is set up with the ECB and Germany was behind pressing for the Austerity policy. Austerity never works but only ever produces the opposite result. Tax increases and cuts in spending deepen a recession and especially when all countries are doing the same at the same time it creates a downward spiral.
This is why the value of the EU economy 17 years ago was 90% of the US economy. Today it is worth only 65%. That is a drop of nearly one third. The UK under the Conservative government also pursued Austerity when that was unnecessary.
It was agreed in the G20 on Toronto in June 2010 after the Germans lobbied in advance of the meeting for Austerity to be adopted.
How can the whole of Europe be seeming run by people who don't know what they are doing?
See "EU's Monsieur Bonkers of Brussels Caused UK's Potholed Roads - [and more] Tuesday, 25 February 2025"
https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/eus-monsieur-bonkers-of-brussels-caused-uks-potholed-roads-and-more
And the German budget is paid for by BlackRock and the government is controlled by the American Democrats
I am part German myself, and with many German friends. You should know many Germans today agree with German supremacy. The more humble Germans just want the immigrants out of what is rightfully their country. The other, more dangerous faction, are the Globalist hypocrites who pretend to accept immigrants and simply want to rule them.
The Europeans are trying to compete with the US and in this lust have screwed themselves. Only to be expected that the Germans would look to install other Germans in positions of power, their arrogance over their supremacy is not gone.
Well, not all of course. There are also many humble, critical Germans who are as disgusted by what is transpiring as you. Von der Schulenburg is a good example. A large proportion of the readers of this Substack are German, by the way. (Around 15%.) But probably so for those in power in Brussels and Berlin, I'm afraid...