The need a distraction from all those emails where they talk about being nazis.
So Brexit is now on the table....
They are taking a page from trumps playbook with Epstein.
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Looked at Brexit and said, "Wow, that went really well!"
Weidel is a neonazi piece of shit and can go fuck herself.
Yep Nationalists hate being beholden to international groupings... And in general the wider you disperse/distribute power and protections the healthier a democracy and liberal state you have.
This is part of why Trump/Putin let a bunch of their treaties lapse. Authoritarians don't like sharing power or anything that might hold them back.
International agreements are good, international trade is good, independent oversight, fair and mutually obligating agreements are good. Departments of fairness and regulatory bodies are good.
Consolidation of power, concentration of wealth/power/benefits, are bad. Favouritism is bad. Nationalist ferver, and attacks on opponents are bad, destruction of regulatory bodies and rules, is generally bad.
Weidel is just cosplaying nationalism. As with many other European far right movements, the AfD is supported by Russian money and Russian information warfare operations. Russia wants to see the EU weakened, if not broken apart. And so their sockpuppets act upon their orders from Moscow.
I have very little idea who this person actually is, but I feel like I've seen her before in old Hogan's Heroes episodes.
This is the obvious weirdo creepy villain, right?
https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-alternative-for-germany-alice-weidel-plan-downsize-eu/
Or.. am I just mistaken?
Let me paint you a picture of who that person is:
She is a german lesbian who lives with her ~~singaporean~~ Sri Lankan wife and their children in switzerland who cosplays as an anti-immigration, racist, islamophobic, queerphobic politician in Germany.
isn't her wife Sri Lankan ?
Ah damnit, got them confused, thanks for the correction!
My two cents:
Creating a monetary union without a fiscal union was a grievous macroeconomic mistake. For example, it allowed countries like mine (Germany) to abuse the shared currency to artifically lower the cost of exported goods, with the downstream effect of allowing it to "move" parts of its state debt to others, like e.g. France.
There really are only two ways towards eventual stability: Create a fiscal union (which for all intents and purposes means turning the EU from a confederation into a sovereign state), or breaking up the monetary union.
The latter, however, would destroy large parts of the export-dependent German economy almost overnight. It would almost certainly lead to economic suffering not seen since the Great Depression in the short-term. To steelman the argument for a moment, it could theoretically be a (state-)controlled burn to purge all those ailing German big corporations almost exclusively dependent on fossil fuels that have been refusing to innovate for more than 30 years now and be the catalyst for a rapid green transition. But there's 0% chance of any far-right party desiring this, let alone being able to pull it of.
So that means either we create a fiscal union, or we're screwed with a monetary system that will continue to amplify existing problems, instead of being a tool capable of addressing them equitably.