I find it pathetic when the weak who is weak by his own guilt, demands the strong who is strong by his own responsibility, not to act strongly but weakly instead.
It may be seen as a wake-up call for always appeasing and always outsitting-things Merkel. I just doubt that she means her gesture serious, and that any substantial consequences will come from this - either from the American or the German or EUSSR side. Obama has not much more than just a minor interest for EUSSR anyway, if any at all. And the US must not see any reason to change its doings. Just to hide them better. EUSSR on the other hand has no tools and means in available to chnage the global infrastructure and lock out the Americans within the forseeable timeframe. Nor does it have the spine and the determination. Nor the money.
The sin of the EUSSR in this all has been done 20 and 30 years earlier - when European nations allowed the Americans to get strategic supremacy in these fields of building the internet and communication networks without forming up any relevant infrastructure by its own that aimed at trying to compete and to equalize this strategic advantage.
Especially the Germans are very good in giving up industrial and economic key infrastructure and competence
for nothing. Well. We therefore get what we deserve: nothing. That is true for so many different themes and issues. Damn German romanticism. I'm sick and tired of this mental desease. I prefer anglosaxon rationality and sense for reality any time. The Brits formed up conceptions of liberalism, self-responsible humanism and freedom. Our response: protestant brainwashing to submit to and obey the state's superior authority, and socialist utopism. Great.
