They’ve Always Worked Things Out In The Past

11 Replies to “They’ve Always Worked Things Out In The Past”

1. Best headline this week!

2. What did the German Field Marshall say to the French Field Marshall?
   Heer we come.

3. Only this time, I’ll root for Germany. HA!

4. Agreed,grok.But do the Germans really want the surrender monkeys to worry about? Guess they could send them to Elba.

5. As Angela Merkel is intelligent and thoughtful (not always correct, but it is not for want of trying) it is plausible that this has much more to do with personalities. Francois Hollande – see what Nigel Farrage has to say about him – is a mouth unattached to a brain; his policy is, unicorn farts for all Frenchmen. At the best the French have always been in the EU for what they could get out of it (I enter the old Common Agriculture Policy of the EU as support for that statement), while the Germans have been earnest good citizens, at huge cost to themselves. I rather think that a solid Gaullist would get along reasonably well with senior members of the German government – at least they would be on the same page. I don’t think that there are any solid Gaullists around any more though.

6. Relax, only two of the four Franco-German wars since 1800 have sparked world wars.

7. Indeed. Thus re-establishing the historical pattern of alliance. We (well, the British) have been allies with the Germans more often than with France; and often at war, or nearly at war, with the French. Just think about who won the Battle of Waterloo: Wellington with British forces for sure, but he had a BIG assist from Generalfeldmarschall von Bluecher and his Prussians.

8. You’re trying to find virtue where there is none. Merkel and the Germans are as self-serving as the French.
   “intelligent and thoughtful”
   Then please explain Germany’s insane nuclear phaseout policy, authored by Merkel.
   But more to the point, it’s now become evident that the Euro is a financial scheme that benefits Germany at the expense of the rest of Europe. The best thing the rest of them can do, particularly Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, is to withdraw from the Euro and default on their national foreign held debt. That puts an end to socialism in these countries as well. After default, there’s no more lenders to socialist financial foolishness.

9. I personally love the smell of Diesel engines starting up in unison on a late Fall morning.

10. What’s needed is a joint EU military establishment that would give Germany access to France’s nuclear weapons.
    That would warm more than one heart in Berlin.

11. In case you hadn’t noticed, Germany has ordered the shutdown of all its nuclear reactors. Your suggestion is like the Pope deciding to conduct a Black Mass. And about as likely.