Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
Bulgaria? Greece? Rural Northumberland? Who decides? The Holy Invisible Hand of the Markets?Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
With such reasoned arguments, who can compete?
Perhaps there is something between an ultra-controlled market and a developing country?
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Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
I am gonna take a wild guess and suggest that Rory was referring to The USA, Western Europe, Japan, Mexico....regulated capitalism with varying degrees of government control over portions of the economy related to "social welfare" concerns.
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Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
Mexico? Is it the level of social welfare we should refer to? Nice. There must be something between hardline capitalism ans state rule on economy, indeed... This one looks to be badly leaning toward the first.
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Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
Not asserting that Mexico is an ideal in any way. Just pointing up that there is more than one recipe between the two points, Mexico's differing significantly from the USA etc.
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
At some point the EU will end up one of two things. A Germany with a Greek yoke or a German boot crushing a Greek. The other option being to dissolve borders and massively strengthen it. Which won't work, but some people think it will.
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Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
Germany did try. It didn't end very well...
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Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
"well" depends only on the timeline one is using.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?
True enough for the 1940s. Though to be fair, Germany had Zero interest in Greece until it felt compelled to pull the Italian's castagne out of the fire.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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