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May 13, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Tangentially, Turkey stans ready to block Sweden and Finland from NATO-membership, due to Sweden's long time aid to the PKK. Hilarious.

If mrs. Andersson cuts aid to PKK and sundry, she loses the support of the communist party and the old school communists in her own party. If she fumbles the NATO-issue, she loses all support from her industry-affiliated parts of the party, the trade unions and the inustrial sector.

Not to mention that the tens of thousands of kurds in Sweden might well vote for the communists, meaning the socialist democrats may lose swing votes in key municipalites and districts in the cities.

And should other moslems follow suit due to (from their point of view) the swedish governement allowing the burning of the Koran., they might lose several hundreds of thousands of votes.

Meaning they would share the fate of Greece's PASOK, the party they most closely remeble.

Maybe Russia has been making the moves on Trukey too? Putin's objectives have been achived in the war: Ukraine in ruins, the eastern parts will become Russia's again, Transistria and Molodovia might become a new Jugoslavia for the EU, Germany et al are wrecking their own economy due to tip-toeing hither and yon politically and the US is now so set against Russia any possible successor to Putin is locked in from the start, having to continue the current politics.

Time to dust off Paracelsus yet again, regarding Germany and her comeback?

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May 13, 2022Liked by epimetheus

The problem is the solution. Less economic activity is less government revenue. Less ability to manage. In the specter of shortages of real resources they can not build enough military equipment. More military is less of everything else as the planet full of humans struggles with resource depletions. The difference now is these fools no longer have the backdrop of increasing fossil fuel usage and seemingly endless supplies. The shortages will be felt more strongly by the government itself. There are a few regional exceptions like Russia. Well, we know what happened to those German bastards time and again with those dreams of conquest, they always collapsed. This time it will not be so long to complete the cycle methinks. The only way forward is for People finding ways to take care of themselves. That chancellor said so himself. Start by planting a garden now.

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"We should be the nation that is willing to find the European solutions that are good for all, not just for our country." Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen! Seems we can't help it...

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