(Today, 03:49 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Mucho thanks! Appreciate your sound commentary. LOL, I was almost going to go back and count how many times he used that term, "vassals". Seems everyone on the world's stage, especially many geopolitical academics are full on one side or the other. There is no down the middle or anyone willing to compromise or offer better solutions for the whole of PEOPLE.
ETMN,
Professor Victor Hanson occasionally comments on European affairs, and one his critiques of the "German way" is that they too often opt for extreme approaches. Some good reading--
https://www.hoover.org/research/great-german-meltdown
As you mention, "no down the middle", even if that comment is appropriate for other European powers as well.
More commentary from Hanson--
https://victorhanson.com/germanys-new-morgenthau-plan/

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