This is really dumb. Germany couldn’t devise a more effective plan to push more countries out.
Deutchland dosen’t want to leave der Vaterland?
Merkel is a bully. Her foreign minister is a raging pinko. She thinks she can use Germany’s economic muscle to force what they want.
They don’t have a currency.
Only the UK was smart enough to test the water AND keep their currency.
I was thinking much the same thing. It's one thing to practice coercion through carrot and stick diplomacy. It's quite another to take prospective allies and tell them that their choice is either a difficult, vindictive time on exit, or subjugation within the EU.
One thing I might differ on--I used to think the French were driving the EU boat, trying in French fashion (remember the pre-WW I alliances) to bind Germany more tightly to Europe. Maybe it's the Germans now. Economically, yes. But diplomatically? I don't know, except for Merkel's crazed immigrant-push.
I was thinking much the same thing. It's one thing to practice coercion through carrot and stick diplomacy. It's quite another to take prospective allies and tell them that their choice is either a difficult, vindictive time on exit, or subjugation within the EU.
One thing I might differ on--I used to think the French were driving the EU boat, trying in French fashion (remember the pre-WW I alliances) to bind Germany more tightly to Europe. Maybe it's the Germans now. Economically, yes. But diplomatically? I don't know, except for Merkel's crazed immigrant-push.
Actually, Hillary Clinton has been behind a lot of this.Especially when Obama gave her control of the State Department.