Great overview of Scholz's visit to China. It seems ludicrous that any Western country can think they can dictate terms of trade/business with China, their biggest trade partner by far. And yet they keep trying to do just that. Ridiculous!
Dutch PM Mark Rutte was also in China recently, lecturing Chinese students on 'the importance of defending Ukraine and Europe from the Russian threat' so they would not take over the entire continent. Since the government fell last year and there have already been elections, I think he's basically campaigning for taking from Stoltenberg as NATO chief, which he's in the running for. Furthermore, he recently greenlit another billion for Ukraine, which is derailing the formation of the new government since government spending is a wedge issue between the negotiating parties.
Scholz is no Bismarck. That's a master understatement right there. A US Empire puppet pretending to be leader of a sovereign country goes to China and the Chinese see...a US Empire puppet.
Excellent analysis! It all seems understandable to me when I think of Germany as essentially a puppet state in the US empire. It was the hubris of ex-Nazis to think they could leverage the US after WW2 against the Soviets. The Soviet Union *was* finally subverted, destroyed, as a section of the Communist Party leadership was won over (or purchased) by the US capitalist state. But Germany, or rather the portion that was West Germany, ended up in vassal status. Not, I think, what the Thyssens and Krupps, etc. probably thought would happen. Today they are — and you portray this very well — an embarrassment.
Just a wild thesis on my part but i would claim that (west) Germany between 1960-1990 was a more sovereign state than it is now. See political personal and energy politics.
If we look at things not as pure essences, but with an understanding that all these entities are always in some kind of motion under the demands of historical (economic/social) forces, then you may easily be correct. I am not familiar with all the relevant variables in the period you mention. The matter rests on just how relative the sovereignty is in contrast to subservience to U.S. control or demands. My guess is that since WW2, and since the stationing of US troops on German soil (now nearing its eighth decade!), the Bundesrepublik Deutschland is for all intents and purposes a vassal state of the U.S.
Great overview of Scholz's visit to China. It seems ludicrous that any Western country can think they can dictate terms of trade/business with China, their biggest trade partner by far. And yet they keep trying to do just that. Ridiculous!
Scholz can be safely described as the worst ever German chancellor
It's not just Schulz either.
Dutch PM Mark Rutte was also in China recently, lecturing Chinese students on 'the importance of defending Ukraine and Europe from the Russian threat' so they would not take over the entire continent. Since the government fell last year and there have already been elections, I think he's basically campaigning for taking from Stoltenberg as NATO chief, which he's in the running for. Furthermore, he recently greenlit another billion for Ukraine, which is derailing the formation of the new government since government spending is a wedge issue between the negotiating parties.
Scholz is no Bismarck. That's a master understatement right there. A US Empire puppet pretending to be leader of a sovereign country goes to China and the Chinese see...a US Empire puppet.
Excellent analysis! It all seems understandable to me when I think of Germany as essentially a puppet state in the US empire. It was the hubris of ex-Nazis to think they could leverage the US after WW2 against the Soviets. The Soviet Union *was* finally subverted, destroyed, as a section of the Communist Party leadership was won over (or purchased) by the US capitalist state. But Germany, or rather the portion that was West Germany, ended up in vassal status. Not, I think, what the Thyssens and Krupps, etc. probably thought would happen. Today they are — and you portray this very well — an embarrassment.
Just a wild thesis on my part but i would claim that (west) Germany between 1960-1990 was a more sovereign state than it is now. See political personal and energy politics.
If we look at things not as pure essences, but with an understanding that all these entities are always in some kind of motion under the demands of historical (economic/social) forces, then you may easily be correct. I am not familiar with all the relevant variables in the period you mention. The matter rests on just how relative the sovereignty is in contrast to subservience to U.S. control or demands. My guess is that since WW2, and since the stationing of US troops on German soil (now nearing its eighth decade!), the Bundesrepublik Deutschland is for all intents and purposes a vassal state of the U.S.