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"everyone in Europe imports from Russia, more or less."
Yup
The smell of fear is the most horrible of odors even compared to death IMHO.
Appeasement is likely to occur just as in the last century.
And likely the same results.
""Germany, so far, seems to be leaning towards a non-active mediator role actually."
How can an active participant on the side that will gain agreat untold measure of advantage from this development be a "non-active mediator".
Talk about your conflicts of interest.
BTW Im 1/2 German, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 Irish by heritage. In fact my maternal grandmother was from a German-speaking farming community spoke liitle english until she was a teenager in the 1920's. She went to a German Lutheran church and parochial grade school and married a Scottish farmer. My maternal grandmother was from Irish laborer stock and married a German farmer who always spoke primarilly English but again not his parents.
Its quite a volatile mix.
I have news though.
IMHO I dont think the US will be able to bail out the Europeans when the crap hits the fan as we have in the past. So dont count on it.
However if Russia chooses to attack the US or resort to its nuclear arsenal as threatened by Putin the outcome will not be pretty for anybody. Rest assured.
Putin is playing with fire and people better start realizing it before we hit the point of no return.
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