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Ah yes, history has shown that this is a good idea. I’m sure it’ll end well this time. germany-cool

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    Does Europe have a Germany problem or does Germany have a Europe problem.

    Like, if it’s a forgone conclusion that the Krauts will attempt to rule Europe, we must take a stance. As long as we know there is a Germany that will do this that becomes the constant. The variable, then, is how they succeed and fail with each attempt. The Eternal German, to give it a name.

    So the question is: is Europe destined to be German and this is one long series of struggles as the Eternal German waxes and wanes? In which ultimately Europe will be suborned, eventually.

    Or is Germany destined for failure every time, and therefore the Eternal German takes the role of the fickle province in constant rebellion against the rest of Europe?

    Which way, Western Man?

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      Europe came closest to achieving political unity under the Nazis, making Adolf Hitler the Qin Shi Huang of Europe (a very cursed phrase). You can see this clearly with this Wikipedia map on Sweden’s “neutrality”

      Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland were “neutral” who did what Herr Hitler told them to do, leaving only Iceland, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, and the RSFSR as part of Europe that Hitler failed in the project of European unification. Runner-ups of European unification are Napoleon and the EU, which both failed to bring southeast Europe to the unification project.

      The Waffen-SS was essentially Europe’s first real army, not a European army of some European principality or a European statelet or a European petty kingdom, but a real army of a (near) unified Europe with European men recruited from the entire continent.

      And this army was completely staffed by genocidal fascists hopped up on stimulants and tasked to wage a war of annihilation against the Tatar-Mongolic Judeo-Bolshevik hordes of the Soviet Union, demonstrating that the very idea of Europe itself is forever cursed and order will not be restored until Europeans accept their true identity as northwestern Afro-Asians hailing from the continent of Afro-Asia.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        I don’t think that even mattered, consider guys who did lost later turned out to be UK and France. Though it might be because they became UK and France because repeated conquests by Germans…