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Frankly its embarrassing by this point. You've got both China and India at the conference quietly laughing behind his back thinking, dude, we 'own' X number of your countries MP/MPP's, we run clandestine Police forces in some of your biggest cities, we send Assassins to take out our opponents at leisure, we are quietly flooding both your coinage and paper currency with counterfeits, we are making you our 'Bitch' more and more with each passing year.
I agree re the culture, less so about the Catholic religion. Poland is a case in point like @Czech_pivo points out.
I agree re the culture, less so about the Catholic religion. Poland is a case in point like @Czech_pivo points out.
It's quite clear when you deal with a NATO organization that there is a divide as between the northerners and the southerners. I tend to put the emphasis on the fact that the south was dominated by the Romans 2 millennia ago and developed elements of Roman law and culture and - dare I say it - a Pax Romana that still persists in attitude today.
Getting back to the prior comments re Germany, I can say that there is a clear division in attitude as between the northern industrial societies (including the former East Germany) and the more rural and agricultural south. That's changing, but the roots are still there. A lot of my generation from Berlin considered the Bavarians as hillbillies and frequently referred to them as "Römer Sklaven" - literally "Roman slaves" as the south, like France, had been conquered while the north never was.
I think that, and geography and climate, laid the foundation of the division between north and south Europeans which the subsequent 1,500 to 2,000 years built on.
hmmm. Advocacy is fine I just prefer that it be accompanied by action for Ukraine and for our own forces
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Oh it is alright. But not the culture you were describing. While Catholicism predominates in southern European culture, it is also big in Poland as well as Austria, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia's, none of which have a "southern European" culture or attitude. But, those countries, like northern Germany, have been quite northerly in their culture for over a thousand years. The common factor is they were all on the borders, or beyond, the Roman Empire and violently resisted assimilation.
Everywhere but cults of all ilks. This is the one thing that Karl Marx was right about.
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And what exactly is the desired end state you see for "this ridiculous war" that Russia started?
Wake up and smell the coffee, the US didn't cause russia to do this. Russia chose to escalate this by using a RS26, in response to conventional strikes on military targets. Russia is threatening nuclear war because a country dared to fight back.
