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2020-01-21 Europe

The world has discovered how to blackmail Germany. Germany, and by extension the EU, is vulnerable to mercantilist threats. This is what happens when trade surpluses are an essential part of your overall economic strategy.

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 I'm all sympathy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-21 01:39|| 2020-01-21 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Germany has the problem that they produce very high quality products that they don't have enough consumers for in house. Gotta sell those Mercs somewhere.

Posted by AlanC 2020-01-21 08:50|| 2020-01-21 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Germany trusts Russia more than us. Get out while the getting's good, I say. Whoever thinks that things are fine is not getting a wide enough perspective.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-21 09:14|| 2020-01-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Blue is the color of wisdom.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-01-21 14:01|| 2020-01-21 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Not blue, and more optimistic than I am. Chermany wants badly to sell dual use to the iranians and wants them badly as a counterbalance to the US and Israel. I hope they lose badly on both counts.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-21 16:21|| 2020-01-21 16:21|| Front Page Top

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