This is what happens when you do a deal with the devil. It’s always a voluntary choice, and then you’re trapped. Germany isn’t alone in this. Many western countries are going to have to make a hard choice between their short term material wellbeing and their spiritual and moral integrity, and Judeo-Christian heritage values. We cannot have it both ways and something will have to give.
Gary Taylor
1 year ago
Germany – never knowingly on the right side of history
Tom Watson
1 year ago
Lol, have we forgotten what happened last time Germany had a “grand strategy to regain its economic and political independence”?
Henry Cunha
1 year ago
This is an alarmist article without any real substance. Goodness, the US, Japan, SK and others hold more FDI stock in China than Germany.
ARNAUD ALMARIC
1 year ago
That’s better!
20.40 BST.
ARNAUD ALMARIC
1 year ago
QED: The. censorship on this essay has been quite appalling.
19:24 BST.
Jürg Gassmann
1 year ago
This is a bizarre article – the US has in the past 25 years launched unprovoked and in international law flagrantly illegal wars of aggression against Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and numerous other members of the UN, without so much as a murmur of official objection from the German government – which even participated and lied its way into the illegal war on Serbia.
Occasional noises are made about the Saudi and UAE murderous war on Yemen, or the Saudis chopping up one of their nationals in their Consulate in Istanbul, so clearly, those aggressors have not gone far enough to worry the principled “West”.
Germany is the poodle to the US, cutting its own flesh to gratify the US’ every whim, and we’re hyping the relationship with China?
The hypocrisy must end.
Spot on!
Even I am surprised that the UnHeard readership is so naive as to believe all the hypocritical tosh that has emanated from the US in recent years.
To equate US policy with Chinese policy suggests that you are extremely biased. You are either extremely anti-American or extremely pro-China. Possibly both. China is engaged in genocide within its borders. It is not a good look for Germany to ignore genocide, given its history.
Correct, China is an existential threat to our civilisation and will have to be dealt with sooner or later.
However that does not absolve the US of its frankly disgraceful behaviour in the Middle East and elsewhere.
‘We’ expect the ‘ Leader of the Free World’ to set an example, which it lamentably has failed to do recently.
This is what happens when you do a deal with the devil. It’s always a voluntary choice, and then you’re trapped. Germany isn’t alone in this. Many western countries are going to have to make a hard choice between their short term material wellbeing and their spiritual and moral integrity, and Judeo-Christian heritage values. We cannot have it both ways and something will have to give.
Germany – never knowingly on the right side of history
Lol, have we forgotten what happened last time Germany had a “grand strategy to regain its economic and political independence”?
This is an alarmist article without any real substance. Goodness, the US, Japan, SK and others hold more FDI stock in China than Germany.
That’s better!
20.40 BST.
QED: The. censorship on this essay has been quite appalling.
19:24 BST.
This is a bizarre article – the US has in the past 25 years launched unprovoked and in international law flagrantly illegal wars of aggression against Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and numerous other members of the UN, without so much as a murmur of official objection from the German government – which even participated and lied its way into the illegal war on Serbia.
Occasional noises are made about the Saudi and UAE murderous war on Yemen, or the Saudis chopping up one of their nationals in their Consulate in Istanbul, so clearly, those aggressors have not gone far enough to worry the principled “West”.
Germany is the poodle to the US, cutting its own flesh to gratify the US’ every whim, and we’re hyping the relationship with China?
The hypocrisy must end.
Spot on!
Even I am surprised that the UnHeard readership is so naive as to believe all the hypocritical tosh that has emanated from the US in recent years.
To equate US policy with Chinese policy suggests that you are extremely biased. You are either extremely anti-American or extremely pro-China. Possibly both. China is engaged in genocide within its borders. It is not a good look for Germany to ignore genocide, given its history.
Correct, China is an existential threat to our civilisation and will have to be dealt with sooner or later.
However that does not absolve the US of its frankly disgraceful behaviour in the Middle East and elsewhere.
‘We’ expect the ‘ Leader of the Free World’ to set an example, which it lamentably has failed to do recently.
I mainly agree, except, America’s ‘bad behaviour’ is not just recently. It was most of the 20th century and certainly 22 years of this century.