Germany sure is better off today than it was in the 1930.

I can only envy them for losing the war...

Erh... I prefer politicians that are at least nominally accountable and I can get rid of without killing them.

It's more proof that human is first concerned with saving his sorry little ass, ideology be damned.

Erh... nope. Maybe the most terrifying moment in American history.

Europe != Ukraine.

As heartless as it may sound, but nobody gives a shit about the Ukraine. If they're gone, so be it. It's a completely different ballgame with Europe where not only a LOT of corporations have their HQs but also need the population as consumers.

Well... ok, I can't say anything about the food... but else...

...which was the reply to putting up rockets in Turkey. And you gotta admit, it worked, Kennedy instantly withdrew the missile stations in Turkey after he felt how it is to have the dagger at your throat.

You took them? And even if, should I trust you?

The first victim of every war is truth. Usually it's slain and buried even before the war starts.

Scaremongering much?

Yeah, last year... oh...

I think I said too much.

/. can by some margin not become a mouthpiece for anything but what the people commenting on it want. Yes, you can tack a propaganda story to the front page. But be prepared to have it shred to pieces before long.

And since people (at least the people I know&care about) read /. for the comments rather than the stories itself, any kind of astroturfing or propaganda usually backfires VERY badly VERY quickly.

The problem is, another part wanted to join Russia. When you look at their economy, that makes a damn lot of sense. The eastern Ukraine is fully dependent on Russia, if Russia nailed the border shut ... well, let's say Detroit would look like everyone's fully employed.

Can't help it, it kinda felt like Berlin 1936...

No go.

Europe is quite dependent on Russian gas and oil. You'll be hard pressed to convince Europe that it should do without. And now take a wild guess where more of that money is located...

Huh? Wait, we can...

Germany? Austria? Turkey? Saddle up and regain your empire from last century, the sale has begun!