[Skybird]

Airbus has been initiated by the Frnech, and different to the Germans the French are not szhy to go for their advantages. for example, Germany is underrepresented and accepts to get driven into corners when it comes to establishing German office holder at key posts of the EU institutions, while others, namely France an d Poland, but others as well, have far less scruples to behave "like just the bad ol' Germans again". Space and aircraft technology has been identified by french politicians to be a key item of most vital natio nal interest for France. In Germany, one is too dump to set such priorities. That'S why the last cornerstone of German nuclear knowhow for building powerplants has just been sold from Siemens to French corporations - when that happend two weeks ago, the german government already was in a position of helplessness. But the developement leading to this helplessness has taken place in the years before, and german politicies should have corrected these - in the years before. When the funeral took place two weeks ago, keeping it under the carpet and not loosing a word about this drama in public was the only option left for the Germans.

Germany needs France in order to not get accused of being the same bad old player going for continental dominance again. It'S a thing of reputation and legitimation (that for Poland , for example, does not make a difference anyway, while others like Britain just hope that the Germans would just stop to cry over their past and "would learn to kill again", as being said with regard to Afghanistan). France needs germany for without Germany it cannot be anywhere close to it's claim to be strong and a leading power in Europe. It's a thing of a lack in factual economic power and a certain strategic-economic inferiority that Sarkozy ovbviously has made a top priority to correct, to make France less dependant from Germany. In the end, France needs Germany de facto more than Germany needs France. A circumstance that any other nation in europe would make use of - but not the shy Germans, still wearing sackclothes and ashes due to the sins of their father's fathers.

Oh Angie-Baby, sees nothing, hears nothing does nothing, but dreams on peacefully, meaning it all so very well. She had her five minutes of fame with Hieligendamm, but beyond the symbolism of that her governing lacks substance and effective results, seing many projects being crippled by this unlucky event of a great coalition and the CDU losing her traditional profile of a conservative party. I think the Merkel government all in all are extremely weka, and her proibably being the most unimpressive chancellor in German history, in no way living up to the expectations at her start.

Since the SPD is unvotable, and the CDU most likely will nominate her as top candidate for elections this year, I already have chalked off the next four years, too. We have too few good people in Germany, damn it. But we have plenty of opportunistic, meaningless manager-types, and now we also have the hyperideologic Die Linke: causing both the CDU and the SPD to move even further to the left, too.

It's election year. Bet they will bury billions in Opel...!? What great names on my mind: Holzmann... Max-Hütte... Landesbanken... Sooner or later the method just has to work, if only you try often enough, eh?