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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Let us be frank with everyone on here Sky....the Germans (or should I say Merkel) have took it upon themselves to be the panacea of all the EU ills, and for the strength of me I don't know why because I suspect the German people/taxpayers had very little say in the matter.
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Indeed - last representative poll by Emnid (the major poll-institute here) that I read maybe 3 weeks ago on the matter, said that three of four Germans are against this madness when being asked for the role Germany plays in saving the Euro. A majority of the Germans did not want it from all beginning on!
I explained earlier why the German "elite" (hahaha) of artists, feuilleton-writers and politicians made it their favourite hobby to let Germany dissolve in a "higher Europe". It is the bad conscience deriving from WWII. That'S why first the EU got declared an issue of peace and war, and when the the Euro had arrived and came under pressure, they started the same claim about the Euro: abandon the Euro, and you will see a Europe turning to war. They now have the new variation of the slogan released: let the fiscal union collapse, and there will be wars in Europe.
If the EU does not get it's will, there will be war.
And if you see some of the reactions in Greece and Britain, the many pictures and posters with German politicians ridiculed as being depicted as a Hitler 2.0 and all that stuff about a Fourth Reich, you must admit that there is plenty of anti-German sentiment indeed, deriving from the war. Or take your own yellow press on the days before a meeting of the English and German soccer team. That is a media world in wartimes.
For Germans, it also holds another lesson. During the 70s and from then on, maybe Germany could be seen as the hotspot in Europe of "Anti-Americanism" - and I mean Anti-Americanism not as constructively meant, fact-oriented criticism (like I attacked the US and the Bush gang heavily over Iraq 03, nevertheless said again and again I do not see mysyelf as an Anti-Americanist), but as an ideologically misled, mostly leftist irrational hostility that amongst other features includes a strong envy for the power of the US that enables(/d) them to do as they want for quite often a time. By that, America did a lot of silly things, yes, but it also did a lot of good things and secured the safety of the Western world - even that of anti-American Germany and Europe. When now Germans will be paying the bills of the Euro and effectively safe the continent from loosing the Euro (maybe), we certainly should not expect that our neighbours will be thankful and pleased by that. Like America earned more hostility then sympathy at times, the same will happen to us, and others will become the greedier at our options the more we do for others. Anti-Germanism runs very strong in Europe, and the EU, and it was just invisible when the Germans did not use their immense power and sat put and just payed the bills one gave them. Now that Germany - from the perspective of the pro-Euro faction - has no other choice than to raise a higher profile and finally - after much German resistence and many opportunities it gave ground and more ground and the more - take the lead: the pack starts howling and fears the storming Nazi-Hun again.
We repeat the experience the Americans have made in the past decades, seen this way. There is just one difference. American mentality is different, and it became stronger by being faced with this pressure. German people, I mean the wide public opinion - do not dare to appear as strong and will always deny they are. For us and our self-pewrception, a strong German is an evil German. Never never again may Germans ever dare to be strong again.
Think you get my point, yes!?