[Info-vax] The changing world

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-04, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <58ec3dde9a4a32fdf5a28abb02e4eb9a528ac126.camel at munted.eu>,
> Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> writes: 
>
>> On Sat, 2022-07-02 at 10:19 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
>> wrote:
>> > > So I wonder, why did GB have to toe the line so closely?
>> >
>> > It didn't.
>> 
>> And they won't, two bills currently before Parliament will override the
>> treaties the UK signed wih the EU.
>
> Which will lead to massive sanctions for violating an existing 
> agreement, hurting the UK even more.  But this mentality---we want to 
> profit but at the expense of others---typified by the UK, Poland, 
> Hungary, Turkey and so on---is obviously not workable.  If you sign 
> something, hold to it.  If you don't want it, don't sign.
>

We have a cretin for a leader, but Germany is in no position to issue such
a lecture, especially after its hypocrisy over the last few months, caused
in part by moronic ideological stupidity that destroyed its energy
independence and put Germany at the mercy of a foreign power.

This is the same Germany that tried bullying Serbia into imposing sanctions
and then let its own energy companies switch to paying in the currency of
that foreign power.

This is the same Germany that was warned about this situation years ago
and just laughed in the faces of the people issuing the warnings.

This is the same Germany that opposed more stronger sanctions because
it had made itself so vulnerable to foreign powers.

This is the same Germany that promises help and then slow-walks that help.

I don't blame Putin for what's going on in Germany - he's just playing a
hand that he should never have been allowed to be given. I do blame Germany
however for being so utterly moronically stupid that it allowed that hand
to exist in the first place.

>> Not good news in the long run. Who will trust us if we break our word?
>
> Indeed.
>

Both our and Germany's political leaders should ask themselves that question.

Simon.

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