Can the United States be trusted with Germany’s gold?
Its leader is trying to cripple the country’s most important industry. His deputy thinks it’s a pathetic freeloader. The man who has their ear is throwing what look a lot like Nazi salutes and openly interfering in its elections to support a far-right party that its own intelligence service thinks is a threat to the constitution.
No wonder, then, that some politicians in Germany are worried that what was for decades seen as one of the world’s most reliable storehouses might not be so secure after all.
Germany and much of the so-called “free world” have been licking the United States’ ass for almost a century. And now that the fragility of their democracy became obvious to see, it’s time to wake up to reality.
I never understood all the love for the US when I was younger, now as an adult with enough experience and cynicism it’s clear it’s all just very successful propaganda and the power of cultural hegemony.
Europe was sitting very comfortably in the matrix of the US soft power, and good profitable business has been done for and with the wealthy class. But because life of average Joe was still pretty good, this ass licking arrangement looked like a great deal.
Now the rules changed, and if we don’t get our shit together real quick, we are also pretty fucked.