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Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Why German History is Different" video.

@g.f.w.6402 you seem to very patriotic to Germany. I’ve always find it interesting that so many Germans feel such a need to be overly zealous and over bearing about their patriotism, as if their national identity depended upon it. It’s almost as if the idea of a unified German national identity is so new, it must be grasped tightly with both hands and borne aloft for everyone to see, just to make sure you feel it strongly enough. This identity crisis and the search for a single coherent national identity is why Germans were so easily led into starting two world wars within a generation, and happily welcomed nationalism, fascism and the Nazis into their hearts, as it gave them something they could hang onto and nationally identify with as a German.
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@Father.of.Red.China15 sorry, did Germany or did Germany not invade France though Belgium at per the schnieffen plan (although they didn’t actually follow it correctly)? Did they not spend 2 years secretly constructing a huge train station with over 20 platforms on the Belgium border for this specific purpose? Did they or did they not secretly at night build and test specific railroads for the movement of troops to achieve this years in advance? Did or did the kaiser not give Austro Hungary a blank cheque to do whatever it wanted to Serbia over the assassination of franz ferdinand, despite Serbia acquiescing to all of Austria’s ridiculous demands apart from one which they asked be sent to the international courts for arbitration? And did he or did he not have full knowledge that doing so would draw Russia and this France into the conflict? Did Anthony Eden the British foreign Secretary not make it perfectly clear to the German ambassador that if Germany invaded France Belgium the British government would have no choice but to declare war on Germany? I’m curious as to how you think Germany wasn’t at fault here, and that planning and building the infrastructure to invade France through Belgium for years and then manipulating events and allies to create an excuse to execute those plans and invading Belgium before anyone else has done a thing to Germany isn’t starting a war. Enlighten me, please. I suppose Germany didn’t start the Second World War by invading Poland either?
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@g.f.w.6402 the french are still at war in Africa today, although like the U.S. bombing of Somalia it doesn’t get reported
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@etho7351 it’s a shame the USA doesn’t feel the same guilt for it’s past, including very recent past
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@g.f.w.6402 the idea that the treaty of Versailles is the sole cause of the war is preposterous. Obviously it was a factor but ww2 was simply a realisation of the ambitions Germany had in ww1, and was in effect the schnieffen plan done correctly. So these plans and ambitions were already over 25 years old
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@g.f.w.6402 the German nation was only founded in 1871. There has been Pele speaking German in many nation states all over Central Europe. Even after Germany was founded, there were still people speaking German outside of Germany, for example in Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Bohemia. You cannot say “where there is a German speaker, there is Germany” and use that to justify invasion. Otherwise, you would support Russia’s invasion of the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine. Saying this is justifiable in international law is utter nonsense.
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@pedrolopez8057 kinda surprised her didn’t mention how much influence German enlightenment had and has on the development and culture of the USA, the manifest destiny and rugged individualism. Germans perhaps have had the biggest influence on the USA out of all European nations. This can also be seen through its dominant food culture, hamburgers, hotdogs and pretzels etc, and it’s warlike ambitions.
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@magical5181 it looks similar to Bernkastel-Kues or Miltenberg maybe
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@magical5181 he was in Marburg later in the video, not sure if that helps
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@g.f.w.6402 yes, I’m well aware of the history thanks having studied it extensively. I’ve read many books and attended many lectures on the subject, by professor Clarke for example. I’m probably far more well versed in it than you are. It’s interesting that you’re attempting to justify the invasion of most of Europe and the slaughter of millions with ‘international lawa’. None of this changes the simple fact that Germany started the First World War by invading France via Belgium, and started the Second World War by invading Poland, and then France through Belgium, again. In fact the Second World War was just Germany realising the ambitions of the kaiser and his government had in 1914. The EU is simply an extension of that mitteleuropa policy through economic dominance alone. However, now that Germany is rearming, it will probably be a matter of decades before the Germans once again invade Europe, especially with people like you at the helm. That’s if we make it to twenty years hence, since thanks to Germany we’re dangerously close to a Third World War.
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@saba1030 the Austro-Hungarians would argue it was stated by Serbia, however it was Germany that gave Austro-Hungary a blank cheque to respond to the assassination of their arch duke in anyway they saw fit, and the Austrians had been itching for an excuse to clobber Serbia for years, especially their Field Marshall, who had asked 8 times in the year preceding to invade Serbia. Ironically it was the archduke Ferdinand who had thwarted his attempts every time, which may explain why security was so abysmal, despite good intelligence that an attempt would be made on his like that day. Regardless, Austro-Hungary would not have started shelling Serbia without Germany giving it express permission, and Germany did so knowing this would drag Russia and thus France into the conflict, enabling it to put into motion the Schnieffen plan that it has spent over 2 years building and testing infrastructure and logistics for.
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@g.f.w.6402 you asked no such thing of me in any comment in this section of anyone can be bothered to read through it. What are you talking about? Just trying to duck a question you can’t answer. I don’t hate Germany at all, in fact it’s one of my favourite countries which is why I spent so many years living there. I think they influence Germany has had on world culture is often vastly under reported, simply because it isn’t a dominant language (thankfully) and of course, because despite being so great it also loses so godamn often. Perhaps because it’s leaders are overly ambitious and have rather more hubris and ego than is good for the country, and think it’s greater than it is (it’s great enough, there’s no need to exaggerate it’s greatness).
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@payennicolas4018 great comment. Merci beacoup. As an Irishman the closeness of french-German relations post ww2 has always interested me, since the many conflicts between the two regions have dominated European history for the past 150 years at least. In fact Germany was funded in the hall of mirrors in Versailles at the end of the Franco-Prussian war, which of course is why the French chose the very same place to sign the terms to end ww1 .
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@payennicolas4018 I’m with you, I love most Germans. Not this one though.
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@magical5181 he was also in Jena
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@magical5181 oh god yeah you said sorry for some reason I thought you were American sorry! Think it’s because there’s so many in the Vincent m comments, I’m ever so sorry please forgive me
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@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla pretty sure he’s a test tube baby
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@g.f.w.6402 when did the the British threaten Beanous Aries with a nuclear bomb? Stop making things up
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@g.f.w.6402 the cherry picker accusing others of cherry picking, irony at its finest. Takes one to know one, I suppose.
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@g.f.w.6402 history is a science 😭. No, it isn’t.
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@etho7351 the most growth and biggest increase to human prosperity in history has been achieved by China, not the USA.
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@saba1030 I’m well aware of Clarke’s views, I’ve read his books and attended his lectures, his viewpoint is important and it’s vital that it’s considered, which is why I’m surprise to find people in the comment section calling him a German hater. As important as his views are, they aren’t the only views that need to be considered, and as much as he rightfully points out other nations responsibility for the build up to war, he does not exonerate Germany from theirs. I’ve seeing an increasing view expressed by Germans that their country was not responsible for the outbreak of war at all, ignoring the fact they planned and built infrastructure for over two years to carry out the invasions of Belgium and France and Russia, invasions they carried out without provocation.
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@saba1030 well, I’m glad to see we’re on the same side. Don’t confuse me with the enemy, or an enemy of Germans or Germany. I am neither. On the contrary I am a big fan of Germans and their country, and I think the German contribution to world culture is often underrated and underplayed.
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@saba1030 the British press is owned and run hook line and sinker by the establishment but you can still find brexit critiques within it. I’m not a brexiteer, but however unfortunate it is, it was put to a democratic vote and I think it’s important that it is respected, even though i I disagree with it, do you not agree? The EU is hardly a paladin of virtue here, and is decidedly undemocratic in nature. How’s much of the German press is critical of the EU, I wonder?
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@saba1030 yeah your experience in Holland is unfortunate but to be expected in a country that has just been occupied by your fellow country men. Americans aren’t exactly popular around the world for the same reasons. I’ve seen English children get beaten up in Ireland just for being English. It’s not nice but it is somewhat understandable, although not condonable.
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@karlmarx3165 yes, the algorithm pre-selecting nationalists who mistake their nationalism for patriotism makes sense
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@Thomas-xd4cx Germany wasn’t a melting pot until 60 years ago? I wonder why that was? If there was some kind of event that might have happened to create an idea of a purer Germany, that expelled all those deemed to be unfit or unpure enough to live there? No, I can’t think of one. Pity, it seemed like such good logic to explain your theory, and would have found support with people like you, I’m sure.
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@Shatterfury1871 the average German iq is 100 by definition, 100 being the 50th percentile on the intelligence quotient bell distribution curve. Clearly you are bang on it.
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@karlosdeevs did you find out where he was in the first 9 minutes?
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@Thomas-xd4cx why would I feel hurt? In couldn’t gaf about Germany, you lost two world wars and one World Cup and are going to be cold and hungry this 🥶. Half 8 in the morning and you reply to me immediately, have you nothing better to do? It seems your feelings of superiority and intelligence have been hurt.
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@Thomas-xd4cx do you class all the people Germany expunged in the 30s and 40s as ‘alien cultures’? Why don’t you stop being a coward, quit beating about the bush and say what you you really mean? Unless you’re too scared of course like a typical keyboard warrior.
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@karlosdeevs think it might have been mittenburg or somewhere near there in Franconia
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@Shatterfury1871 the reason African Americans are in general more physically powerful is because they have the benefits of living in the richest country in the world with the greatest access to food, nutrition, steroids, gyms, sports recreation and sports science in the world, and far better than any country in say Africa. That doesn’t mean that you don’t get people like Francis Nganno coming from Africa though. You have a very warped sense of genetics
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@Who_can_save_you_from_hell what are you talking about
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@Shatterfury1871 who mentioned healthcare? You’re not wrong about that. However, the best examples of African American athleticism will have the finest most expensive private healthcare in the world - American footballers, basketballers and athletes for example.
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@Who_can_save_you_from_hell washcloth?
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@Metryk don’t mention the war!
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@magical5181 might have been nauberg in sale
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@magical5181 go while the euro is cheap, you won’t get better prices than now. Don’t go in the winter though, it’s going to be a cold one thanks to the USA blowing up the pipeline and pushing the Ukraine war. It’s funny because Ukrainians have started complaining that they haven’t got electricity or heating now that Russia has started targeting their power grid in retaliation for the bridge and pipeline attacks, but Germans have been having to do without electricity and heating for a while bore and this winter is going to be really bad
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@M0butu freemasonry is German? There’s a lot of Germans in the USA
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Shame the comment section is filled with Germans of the opposite dereliction
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@luringen947 be proud of starting two world wars and being efficient at concentration camps? Why not click your heels and Perform a Nazi salute while you’re at it mien fuhrer
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@Father.of.Red.China15 what did you expect if chose to live in Neukölln and are a coward? I didn’t have any problems there myself but it’s virtually the worst place in Germany to live. There are so many better places, Naumburg for example is lovely without any of those issues. And school shootings are still exceptionally rare in Germany, unlike the USA where they have them virtually every week
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@g.f.w.6402 the man said intellectually 😂 you are the definition of a try hard pickme who’s too much of a coward to say what he actually thinks. You wouldn’t know intellectualism if it shat on your face
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@Father.of.Red.China15 generation of new Germans making sense? You could start by making sense yourself. Sorry, I’m not with you?
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@g.f.w.6402 officially 11 000 Kenyans were killed in the May May uprising, including over 1000 that were hanged. I’m sure the number is probably greater than this, and I’m certain that the camps were used for torture and even to kill some of their inmates. However, equating them to the German industrial massacre of 6 million Jews is nonsense. There is no evidence that tens of thousands died in the camps in Kenya, but even if they did, it is not the same as the attempt to exterminate an entire ethnic group from Europe. The ironic thing about the Holocaust is that not only did it consume vast amounts of resources that could have been put to the war effort, but it also reduced Germany’s manpower by 6 million, who could have contributed substantially to the war and would have probably been the difference to Germany winning.
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@g.f.w.6402 anyone who quotes Wikipedia, particularly on history, is an unimaginable fool of epic proportions. Wikipedia I’d highly subjective, contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, and is only fit be used for names and dates. How can you trust a source page that has over 400 edits within a year, much of which is people taking out content they don’t agree with and others putting it back in again. Wikipedia is for the stupid and unimaginative. Please do not mention it again if you want to be taken seriously.
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@g.f.w.6402 “exploitation and abuse of the Holocaust “? Your Nazi credentials have been confirmed.
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@g.f.w.6402 the poles weren’t ‘Germany’s people’ and Britain declared war on Germany when it invaded Poland. Invading Poland started World War Two. Go back to reading Wikipedia articles you’ve written, you are a Nazi apologist
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@etho7351 been more peaceful? What do Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Somalia, Yemen? What do you call this lot? Guatemala 1954 Indonesia 1958 Cuba 1959-60 Guatemala 1960 Belgian Congo 1964 Guatemala 1964 Dominican Republic 1965-66 Peru 1965 Laos 1964-73 Vietnam 1961-73 Cambodia 1969-70 Guatemala 1967-69 Lebanon 1982-84 Grenada 1983-84 Libya 1986 El Salvador 1981-92 Nicaragua 1981-90 Iran 1987-88 Libya 1989 Panama 1989-90 Iraq 1991 Kuwait 1991 Somalia 1992-94 Bosnia 1995 Iran 1998 Sudan 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 Afghanistan 2001 Libya 2011 Iraq and Syria 2014 –2022 Somalia 2011 –2022 Iran 2020
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@g.f.w.6402 “everyone got what they deserved” yeah, you’re a Nazi
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@saba1030 all that is true and yet the kaiser still have austro-Hungary a blank cheque to start shelling Serbia, without which it wouldn’t have done it, and then promptly proceeded to invade Belgium and France, executing the schnieffen plan that it had been building infrastructure for and testing for over two years. This was a premeditated invasion, one that was wholly unjustified just like the identical invasions they carried out a quarter of a century later more successfully. It’s rather disconcerting to find so many Germans justifying their county’s invasions of Europe just as Germany is starting to re-arm.
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker if you can’t give us citations for these supposed quotes they’re all obvious neo Nazi lies. Let’s see what you come back with
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker and fyi I’m Irish, and have been lucky enough to have enjoyed the benefit of America’s finest dentists
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@saba1030 you’ve clearly never read any Fischer. He’s a prominent German historian. I would have thought he was considered essential reading for Germans. The fact he clearly isn’t doesn’t bode well for Europe’s future
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker no, I just worked there for a few years. How are those citations for your alleged quotes coming along? Not got any? So they’re just neo Nazis lies then
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker the fact you think professor Clark calls Germany the bad guys shows how poorly read it are and how little you know. I’m still waiting for those citations for the supposed quotes you listed.
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker the only thing you put together is Nazis good. Still not got any citations for your bullshit quotes? You can’t even quote historians correctly
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@saba1030 I know from personal experience that all Germans are not like that, not unless they hide really it well. However there is an increasing preponderance of Germans who are like that, and have decided to stop hiding it. This comment section is full of them, and their Nazi sympathies are all too obvious, even if they’re too cowardly to admit them outright. Hiding from confronting the responsibility of your past just encourages them. No German born post war should feel any guilt for the actions of the previous generations, but they should not allow them to hide from their responsibility what happened. You can call it German bashing but that’s just not accurate. It’s a simple statement of facts that Germany invaded France via Belgium twice without provocation, had a large responsibility in stating the First World War and definitely started the second, even if the treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for the conditions that led to the rise of Hilter. Blaming Versailles for everything that happened from 1939 onwards is not acceptable, and neither is refusing to acknowledge the German blank cheque given to Austro-Hungary and is invasion of Belgium and France as critical in the outbreak of World War One.
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@saba1030 when Germany invade Europe again in 20 years will you be blaming the collapse of the EU and the war in Ukraine to justify it?
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker you can’t give me citations for those quotes which proves they are Nazi lies.
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker you don’t even read books about German history or know anything about prominent German historians
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@saba1030 I find it strange that modern Germans feel aggrieved that their county’s leaders from over 100 years ago are called out on their terrible decisions. I find Germans far too deferential to their leaders, similar to the french. You both need to take a leaf out of Ireland or Britain’s or Australia’s books. Look at the British example with May, Boris and Truss, for example. They are not afraid to call out their leader’s failures.
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@Weltanschauungstheoretiker get those citations soon little girl
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@pascualkl7204 no he doesn’t. He emphasise a total lack of diplomacy to go alongside the military build up, and makes note of the complete ineffectualness of Germany’s dreadnoughts and the waste of resources they encompassed. Why would anyone choose to lose a war so badly? There was no earthly reason for Germany to give Astro-Hungary a blank cheque and then immediately invade Belgium and France. The fact that the idea that Germany was entirely justified in invading France through Belgium is so common in Germany is troubling to say the least. By the same logic is Russia entirely justified in invading Ukraine? Was the USA and U.K. entirely justified in invading Iraq? How about Vietnam?
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@pascualkl7204 where is that taught in 9th grade, Nazi Germany?
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@pascualkl7204 yeah I can tell you’ve never read Clarke or Fischer, much less attended any of their lectures. Stick to baseball and wrestling
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@achimwokeschtla7582 tell me what’s been happening in Yemen for 5 years. Tell me how many civilians have been killed in Yemen as opposed to Ukraine. Tell me how many Iraqis were killed during their invasion and occupation. And if Russia is threatening to use nukes maybe we’d better wake up and listen
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@achimwokeschtla7582 it’s cool when we do it, but it’s a problem when they do it
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@pascualkl7204 those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it
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@pascualkl7204 aha, a bootlicker with a sanctimonious superior than thou attitude hiding behind his keyboard. We’re coming for you
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@pascualkl7204 truth hurts huh, laugh it up snowflake
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@achimwokeschtla7582 who says so, the media? Yes, it’s very important that we all think exactly what the corporate owed media tell us to think. The war in Yemen has been going on for over 5 years and is still going on today, Saudi Arabia and the USA are bombing schools, hospitals and school buses, and have killed 400 000 civilians including 100 000 children, but because your media doesn’t tell you to care, you don’t. Personally I have my own brain and my own opinions, and I don’t rely on the media or governments to tell me what to think.
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@KiKi-mo2qh I don’t know, I’m not sure we’ll survive the next two decades in anything recognisable to the state we see today, huge changes are on the way and when they happen the most powerful nations usually do something for their own benefit, and Germany is the most powerful nation in Europe. If the eu collapses I can see Germany going into eu countries “for their own benefit” or to “demilitarise them” it only takes one generation to change the mindset of a nation, and nationalism is on the rise all over Europe and the world, and the EU is actually exacerbating it
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@torsteinnorbertson that’s exactly what chamberlain said to Churchill
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@torsteinnorbertson have you never heard of mitteneuropa? What do you think the eu is all about?
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@danielkaner5156 tell that to the people in Northern Ireland or Israel, funny how much the present and future is shaped by the past
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@torsteinnorbertson I’m afraid you’re rather ignorant about these things, I suggest you do some reading about subjects if you wish to be informed
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@torsteinnorbertson Germany has committed to spending €100bln euros on rearming for the next ten years, which will give it the largest and most up to date military in Europe. The Mitteleuropa plan was to achieve an economic and cultural hegemony over Central Europe by the German Empire and subsequent economic and financial exploitation of this region combined with direct annexations,making of puppet states, and the creation of puppet states for a buffer between Germany and Russia. The issue of Central Europe was taken by German thinker Friedrich Naumann in 1915 in his work Mitteleuropa. According to his thought, this part of Europe was to become a politically and economically integrated bloc subjected to German rule.
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@erics1140 Americans don’t even care when their own children get shot in schools every week. The American government and media have brainwashed them to allow their Zionist masters to control every aspect of their lives, even their minds. And it’s so successful that they don’t care, even when they’re told. MK Ultra and operation mockingbird are in full effect.
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