Comment:
That around 70 % or 513/720 of the German lawmakers wish to take more loans to finance the military and "climate investment", is perhaps remarkable, but given the trajectory of politics in most EU nations it is also not surprising. When the annual EU capital flight tops $300 billion, do the German politicians imagine their decision will attract more investments faster than the money are leaving?

Comment:
Energy did not become more expensive without the participation of most of the member states, and now the EU has dug a hole for itself that it will be challenging to get out of.

See also:

• EU 'rearmament' plan has no funding - Euractiv
• Ursula von der Leyen, acting as the new Fuhrer, calls for the militarization of the EU: parallels with the past.
• Paralyzed by acute dementia, Europe declares war on Russia all over again

Comment: Will a little public humiliation make a difference to the MSM? Unfortunately, probably not. They will be counting on the short memories of their viewers. Still, it was nice to see some public accountability, however ephemeral.

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More important than making sure it enters a particular dictionary is the attempt to understand what is meant by the term. To this effort the author is making a sincere contribution, and after all, people all over the world before the time of books and dictionaries, communicated elegantly using complex grammar structures and abstract concepts.

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The EU has in recent years turned into more of an undisguised military alliance and now needs the war in Ukraine and the tension with Russia as a platform from where to justify political measures. Increased mainstreaming of the public discussion and an obstruction of power challenging oppositions on a national level, as witnessed in France, Germany and Romania has been a consequence.

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"Whatever it takes" is a cover that lends decency to totalitarian politics. But what if one day the table turns, and it is not the Euro-elites alone that proclaim but those they have oppressed and taxed in the name of "Whatever it takes"? The examples from recent European history show such a public response could still a ways off, if it will ever happen. Alternatively, something else will intervene, a new buzz, little more than an updated version of "Whatever it takes" with much of the public latching on to the newest hype as if the pattern had never played out before. The good news is, "Whatever it takes" can in terms of money grabbing and freedom restrictions not go on for ever, but where is the limit? In Ukraine some might say that once life is taken, property confiscated and the family is under pressure to go to the front, then there is little more to take. To this, a religious person might add that as long as the soul is not smashed, there is faith, hope and charity, with charity often understood as love. Another interpretation would be that rather than focusing on what is taken or not, what is the discussion about what is taken or not taken distracting us from seeing about what is going on in general among people, in society and the cosmos that surrounds us.

Comment:

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