Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Recession and a deadlocked government: Is the German economy going down the drain? | To the Point" video.

  1. Only to be subservient to Russia?
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  2. The EU was formed precisely because individually the US could easily swallow them up.
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  3. Just 25 years ago it was a vassal to the USSR.
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  4.  @stationtavern8527  Because they need the US for their own survival.
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  5. Like Germany's Eastern half once the USSR collapsed.
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  6. Like the ex-Soviet bloc?
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  7. Germany is too socialist for its own good.
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  8.  @akn650  And re-embrace the clutches of Russia.
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  9.  @trinleywangmo  But Germany doesn't owe foreigners anything, though.
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  10. Just like it did 25 years ago.
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  11. Germany should have funded its own rebuilding if they don't like being owned by the US.
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  12. What did you expect from a country that's barely a generation removed from being a communist Soviet vassal state?
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  13. Austerity is the result of economic mismanagement and living beyond your means leading to insolvency.
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  14. Just like it used to be a Soviet vassal state and imported a lot to compensate for its own lack of local industry.
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  15. Because Germany is a sovereign country and has every right to tell outsiders to learn the language of the land or find another country to immigrate to.
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  16. Yeah, but there's one problem. Europe is nothing without the US's financial and military largesse that allows it to have its generous welfare system.
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  17. Pretty much.
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  18. Austerity is the result of economic mismanagement and living beyond your means.
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  19. Yet they do because the US is the reason why they can afford their otherwise unsustainable cradle-to-the-grave welfare system.
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