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Offline TuscanGangster

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"The Euro War"
« on: 18-05-2013, 14:05:22 »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFp6dN9gqZw

Found this video in youtube, what do you think of it?

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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #1 on: 18-05-2013, 15:05:53 »
The intro is already bullshit, painting a simplistic black-and-white picture of a way more complex situation by victimizing those "poor" broke states and turning Germany into some sort of evil slaver who rules over the rest of Europe.
IMHO the current situation is way more complicated and especially in Greece, Italy and Spain pretty much their own fault. By voting politicians into power who bought the people´s votes with an over-extensive wellfare state, these countries have created a massive dept-trap, spiralling public spending out of control and basically destroying themselves. As an additonal factor this over-extensive state spending has turned their population, especially the youth and young adults, into a mob of entitled, ever-more-demanding generation which can´t deal with this crisis in any other way than rioting and destroying other peoples property and blaming others for problems.
Unfortunately the more succesful EU countries like Germany were stupid enough to grant them even more money through EU-loans and have thus contributed to making the situation much more worse.

The whole video is just part of a big "machine" that tries to blame evil bankers, politicians and of course the Germans for a self-inflicted problem and is typical of todays generation that always seeks to blame others if something´s going wrong. Besides being an anti-EU/German piece of propaganda that only further fuels anti-Euro sentiments, it doesn´t contribute anything else.

Except for these points, the video is an unrealistic piece of horse-manure, as Germany lacks the military capabilities and public will to start anything close to a "Euro War". With several NATO/UN-missions, a smaller-than-ever military and its own budget problems, Germany won´t be able to use military sanctions against countries who can´t pay their debt.
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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #2 on: 18-05-2013, 15:05:02 »
The Belgo-Dutch coalition would've overrun everyone and proclaim the Nederlandstalige Unie van Europa.
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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #3 on: 18-05-2013, 15:05:18 »
The Belgo-Dutch coalition would've overrun everyone and proclaim the Nederlandstalige Unie van Europa.

Our president is already in place.

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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #4 on: 18-05-2013, 15:05:03 »
you cant stop the revolution


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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #5 on: 19-05-2013, 19:05:33 »
Wasn't they jealous at first? Thinking why the standard of living in Germany, UK, or France, or even Scandinavian countries are higher while "they" are supposed to be in the same zone.

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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #6 on: 19-05-2013, 19:05:27 »
I think that the reason of such situation is Euro currency - with the same currency poorer countries had no chance with the financial crisis. One currency for many countries is a nice idea, but there must be one condition - the level of life must be similar in these countries...

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Re: "The Euro War"
« Reply #7 on: 19-05-2013, 19:05:44 »
That's one factor.

But it is more because of each country are pursuing their own financial policy while using one currency. That shouldn't happen. They also maintain their own central bank, and some are not truly independent, which makes the Euro transparency looks like total bullshit.

They once discussed of unifying the central bank and place them in Germany. But the Euros are distrustful to each other and the same "4th Reich" suspicion becoming rampant. Why not in Malta for example? Surely idiotic nationalist agenda were also in the play. It shouldn't take anything more than common sense to work out why it should be in Germany or UK (if the Brits didn't confuse themselves too many times). Germany has the most conservative and proven financial policy in the region, which is safe. And UK has the most sophisticated market, which is good and profitable, but riskier.