Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire" video.

  1. Germany has several crisis events that are meeting all at the same time. The German economy is too reliant on exports, birth rate is too low, energy generation was outsourced to one point and the German people are too soft.
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  2. Europe cannot blame America for its own problems. America did not force European countries to accept massive welfare state programs, to have no children, to spend all their available capital on government drive programs. Did the US tell European countries to ban fracking or to expose them self to Russian energy. America tried its best to protect many of these countries but could not get them to work in their own interests.
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  3. The population collapse coming to europe is its biggest sing threat that looming. Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands and Belgium all are about to face massive population declines over the next 10 to 15 years. By the time the populations of these countries figure out what is going on it will be too late.
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  4. Plebs could have been having children but instead were to busy whining about climate change and demanding a larger welfare state. And as the issues get bigger the plebs will demand an even larger welfare state. Sort of like a junkie in cold turkey.
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  5. Well the people of Spain decided they wanted a socialist governance and that is what they go so tough luck.
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  6.  @StuartMedinaMiltimore  The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party dominate Spanish Politics hence why Pedro Sánchez is the PM. I never said Spain was a socialist economy just that the governance is dominated by socialist policy and that is what the people of Spain seem to want.
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  7.  @andreaerling7614  That is not even close to being true so stop looking for excuses. America tolerated the EU because it brought a certain level of European stability that played out in series of political crisis rather than war.
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  8.  @andreaerling7614  I have pointed out that the US tolerates the EU but it does not mean that the EU is a vassal of the US. That is incredibly ridiculous to make that claim.
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  9. Russia is invading so let us keep some perspective. Russia like most of the European countries is a failing culture.
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  10. All of the major countries of Europe are about to face a population crisis where there are too many old people and not enough young people.
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  11. The US has not been printing up money to fill in its own finances it has been doing it to try and keep the world trading and peaceful. They did it long enough that the populations of Russia and China would collapse. Europe has made its own mess.
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  12. The only major countries with Stable populations have been the US, UK and France. And they managed to replace the peaks and declines with immigration. All the other major countries in the world are screwed when it comes to their populations.
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  13. These problems go back further than Merkel and cannot be laid at her door. German culture has to accept most of the blame but this is not just a German problem all the major powers of Europe have a massive population crisis coming around the corner.
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  14. There is nothing really stopping Russia from Rolling into the rest of Europe.
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  15.  @anonnemo2504  The name of NATO may not be enough for the Russians to be scared off. We can only hope that US troops are enough to make Russia think about crossing that line.
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  16. The countries of Italy, Space, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Belgium and even Poland are about to face a population crisis. They are all going to have too many old people and not enough young people. For the last 60 years all of these economies have blocked American imports such as cars and machinery. Well they are all about to find out how mocking US healthcare works.
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