Germany was waiting this whole time for a major crisis, which ultimately turned out to be the latest phase of the Ukrainian Conflict that US-led NATO is entirely responsible for provoking, in order to make its two interconnected power plays that are now actively unfolding.
As I always saying, EU is German Fourth Reich actually. All the political and ideological goals of the German Reich dreams materialized in the political and economic setup within EU. Now it's about the time for a final touch-up - military domination of the revived German Reich.
How can Germany ever hope to field "the biggest conventional army in Europe"? No inexpensive, reliable energy supplies, no industrial base. No very substantial industrial base, no military power. How could German elites willingly undergo "massive self-inflicted economic damage" and somehow expect to prevail? The thesis sketched above is interesting but not wholly convincing.
Andrew Korybko has been very prescient regarding Russia and Eastern Europe but this piece is a disappointing stretcher, trying to dredge up 20th Century mythology in the absence of Western Realpolitik or Machtpolitik.
As John Kearscheimer opines, Western leaders are just silly people.
I wouldn't take anything they say very seriously, especially some regarding some 4th Reich or European Re-Armament.
In fact, an EU army and ending national votes has been the long time ambition of Brussels, not Berlin.
Scholz's statements could as easily be interpretted as of American insitigation as well, given no German leader would be that forward without U.S. approval at least. It would also concur with frivolous American warmongers who backed Azov Battalion in Ukriane.
Over all, it's still too easy to Nazis around every corner simply because the victors of the last wo world wars simply won't stop fighitng them except when it's inconvenient because in reality, the last of that world order disappeared with the Berlin Wall.
Germany has a pre-eminent place in Europe as a powerful central power since 1870, proven remarkably enough through two major subsequent defeats. But hegemon as a Cold War Superpower was always stretching it as it is now. Germany was and is far more integrated than dominating as Otto von Bismarck understood all too well. Maintaining the peace was perogative of the Imperial Kaisers and even Hitler far more than the former Entente or Allied powers would like to admit although it's easy enough to see as Russia is in a similar predicament now.
Excellent analysis.
As I always saying, EU is German Fourth Reich actually. All the political and ideological goals of the German Reich dreams materialized in the political and economic setup within EU. Now it's about the time for a final touch-up - military domination of the revived German Reich.
How can Germany ever hope to field "the biggest conventional army in Europe"? No inexpensive, reliable energy supplies, no industrial base. No very substantial industrial base, no military power. How could German elites willingly undergo "massive self-inflicted economic damage" and somehow expect to prevail? The thesis sketched above is interesting but not wholly convincing.
Andrew Korybko has been very prescient regarding Russia and Eastern Europe but this piece is a disappointing stretcher, trying to dredge up 20th Century mythology in the absence of Western Realpolitik or Machtpolitik.
As John Kearscheimer opines, Western leaders are just silly people.
I wouldn't take anything they say very seriously, especially some regarding some 4th Reich or European Re-Armament.
In fact, an EU army and ending national votes has been the long time ambition of Brussels, not Berlin.
Scholz's statements could as easily be interpretted as of American insitigation as well, given no German leader would be that forward without U.S. approval at least. It would also concur with frivolous American warmongers who backed Azov Battalion in Ukriane.
Over all, it's still too easy to Nazis around every corner simply because the victors of the last wo world wars simply won't stop fighitng them except when it's inconvenient because in reality, the last of that world order disappeared with the Berlin Wall.
Germany has a pre-eminent place in Europe as a powerful central power since 1870, proven remarkably enough through two major subsequent defeats. But hegemon as a Cold War Superpower was always stretching it as it is now. Germany was and is far more integrated than dominating as Otto von Bismarck understood all too well. Maintaining the peace was perogative of the Imperial Kaisers and even Hitler far more than the former Entente or Allied powers would like to admit although it's easy enough to see as Russia is in a similar predicament now.