Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "German reunification – a short history | DW Documentary" video.

  1. I don't know enough European politics to make a fair comment here, but as a country, Germany is a young state imprinted over various Germanic speaking regions which may go back over 1000 years. In that process, like many other places in the process of nation-state building and associated panache of extremist politics, led to tumultuous series of events leading to revolution, religious persecution and vicious, destructive and widespread warfare, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Many European nation states have undergone this process, in one form or the other (England in the 17th, and France in the late eighteenth & early nineteenth century). The twentieth century is particularly bad for the invention of mechanized warfare and concentration camps nearly simultaneously (cyber warfare is and will be the innovative weapon of the twenty first century). Note, not to feel any particular guilt here. Germans were not the inventors of either concentration camps or mechanized warfare, although obviously used, but not exclusively. One thinks of the Soviet Union's gulags and the T34 tank for example. Reunification does not need, if done peacefully (like 1989), need the militaristic sabre rattling that goes along with it, from the morons (like Albert Einstein said), that don't need a cerebral cortex and where a spinal column would suffice.
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  2. What the British forget, is that no-one drinks tea anymore. They all drink coffee. A very Teutonic desire to "control the process". However, in politics there is no controlling process; dystopia is the norm in politics, especially international politics. This Covid plague is a very underlining case of dystopia in international politics, as an emphatic argument point: It's a man made disaster, made by the failure of the current Jinping CCP dictatorship by covering up instead of isolating and controlling the infection before it went global.
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