News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Yeah well....Interpol just elected a criminal to lead....a "fox in the henhouse" so to speak.....

....As if to prove the thesis of Applebaum's article, on Nov. 25, 2021 the International Police Criminal Organization, popularly known as INTERPOL, elected Emirati Ministry of the Interior (MOI) General Ahmed Naser al-Raisi as its new president. The media has widely reported General al-Raisi's involvement in human rights abuses and the UAE's role in past exploitation of INTERPOL.....

inkstickmedia.com/the-fox-guarding-the-henhouse/

Building up a real functional Europol would be a worthwile achievement in the light of this!

The main problem for all these common institutions as I see it is the babylonic language chaos in Europe I fear....a problem I don't have a clear cut answer for yet.

I would go with english ffs....as would most Germans....even as german is after english the most widely spoken language now that the Brits are out (36%), but the French are stuck on french (29%) and so are others with theirs like italian (18%)....or spanish (17%)....but a real USofE need besides a common territory, joint borders and shared institutions at least one main language EVERYBODY uses, at least officially!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


A common currency.....free trade in the biggest common market in the world....free moving across the continent for goods and people....funds for the weaker regions...common institutions...

That's what super duper Empires of the past tried to achieve....the EU did it, peacefully....for nearly 80 years now!

You've got to be kidding me, either you don't know sh't about the EU, it's advantages and it's disadvantages....or you are just willfully ignorant, and that is never a good advisor to make correct judgements and informed opinions!


Alot of these problems are still part of the souvereignity of each member state....without giving up more of these national rights up to the EU there is no way the EU can do something about it, she just has not the necessary rights and allowances.

It's a long way to go about it, some members will walk the whole nine yard....some will not!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


*nods*

...doesn't mean survived challenges won't change the EU too.

That belorussian scheme trying to blackmail the EU with refugees is a good example, it only will lead to something which had been taboo till now, a "Festung Europa"!

But every "United States" needs that, it's practically a basic requirement....a clearly defined common territory with jointly secured and defended borders!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


It is the strongest super state we did ever build....

The other alliances were only build to hold the "others" in check, and we both know how that always ended...those "nice" times had been short lived breaks, always gearing up for the next big catastrophe.

As the USofA had been disunified and quarreling once in their history that too led there to war and utter destruction. Only a Union can and did put an end to that!

A Europe without the EU, with all its countries members, will soon also again lead to a sad and bad repetition of well known history....it would be futile to believe otherwise.


A country isn't only developing when it's population grows....or otherwise african or arabic sh*itholes would be far above us by now.

The next proof of superiority and development is the "race to the stars"....there lies our all future! Who wins this will rule!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Without the EU it HAD BEEN EATEN by its neighbours....countless times....but now they are all members of the EU...as equals with equal voting rights!

....After the Eighty Years' War, Luxembourg became a part of the Southern Netherlands, which passed to the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty in 1713.....

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....After occupation by Revolutionary France, the 1815 Treaty of Paris transformed Luxembourg into a Grand Duchy.....

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...in the following decades, Luxembourg fell further into Germany's sphere of influence, particularly after the creation of a separate ruling house in 1890. It was occupied by Germany from 1914 until 1918 and again from 1940 until 1944.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Luxembourg

And now that:

...Since the end of the Second World War, Luxembourg has become one of the world's richest countries, buoyed by a booming financial services sector, political stability, and European integration. ....

That was a bad example for your position, Gruni! :)

Actually all tinies and weaker countries will never have it so good as with the EU....especially those who fear a dominant Germany....without the EU you wouldn't be equals anymore, with the same voting rights, sitting at the same tables...adhering to the same treaties!

Ask Luxembourg! ;)


Where should they do that? There is hardly any barren land in Europe...some would even say it's overpopulated.....maybe if we put more ressources into space exploration...the search for a new Earth to colonize....new ressources and developing of new technologies....also something that we Europeans TOGETHER could do alot better than every country alone for itself....logical, right?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


How so?

I compare a future USofE with the one federal super state in existence, the USofA! (Build by Europeans at that!)

How do you think would....say.....Iowa....Nevada....or Mississippi hold up all alone against....say....China or Russia? Economically and military?

Think about Alaska....would Russia had gotten it back till now? All alone by itself?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

....and wait for someone else to bake you the perfect cookie? That you can enjoy then afterwards?

I don't think the EU works that way.....I don't think LIFE works that way....sorry....

If more Poles would had appreciated the old Commonwealth and fighted to keep the Union together Poland would never had suffered such a fate by it's neighbours!

...just saying!

*takes helmet, steps down from the soapbox and leaves for now*

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


So....I do all the work for a cool USofE whereas you work for Poland leaving?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Totally agree! :)

But you see....the talk about a federal EU has also just started....that idea has to grow roots first before we can do any planning...



Alot like that....but which idea would be longterm better for our countries, for our people? Back to the beginning with empty hands? All alone in a globalized world?

Or a super strong USofE???

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

I was surely one of the mockers who laughed out loud about Helena Dalli, the braindead maltese EU official who truly thought to spit on european traditions would be a great way to make it easier for non-european foreigners to feel welcomed here...

We showed her how wrong she was....that Europe must not give up it's soul, it's culture, it's traditions to be a diverse Heimat....I felt better after she took it back! I think the EU is better now, keeping it's heritage openly and officially.... :)

(and I'm not even Christian or otherwise interested in those "book-religions")

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

....By the 18th century, destabilization of its political system brought the Commonwealth to the brink of civil war and the state became increasingly susceptible to foreign influence.[100]...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth#Political_turmoil_and_the_enlightenment_(1697%E2%80%931771)

That's what you want for Europe?

...The remaining European powers perpetually meddled in the country's affairs.[101] Upon the death of a king, several royal houses actively intruded in the hope of securing votes for their desired candidates.[102] The practice was common and apparent, and the selection was often the result of hefty bribes directed at corrupt nobles.[103] ....

Just supplant the then "foreign powers" with the future global powers....and that will be our fate too....partitioned into other non-european powers spheres of influence, without any say in it anymore!

Can't you see that?

No, the EU is not perfect....as the old Commonwealth wasn't perfect.....but Poland was better WITH IT, than without it.....the same applies to the European Union!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


It's yours too....make it better!

There had been no Germans in the old Commonwealth, you have only yourself to blame....maybe Poland ist not good for any Union? But to survive alone ist hard too...

So why not take what you have and make it work for you?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

....what a start!

Do you want the EU to end like the old Commonwealth? Was that good for Poland?

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Some braindead maltese official thought that a good idea....but she was taught that it was not!

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/helena-dallis-christmas-conundrum-explained.919519

...The massive outcry in international media led Dalli to withdraw the document saying it was a work in progress and that her office is taking note of the concerns and will address them in an updated version....


By whom?

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]


I don't think so....

I believe he feels Slavs generally threatened and has to fight said threat. It's actually a nice trait not only to be concerned for one self (and maybe plus family) but also to care about your town, your country....I think that fear he feels is honest and serious!

But of course every nice trait can be misguided and develop into something hurt- and harmful...especially when the biggest threat today doesn't come from the outside but from the inside.

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]

Crowie? Is it totally unimportant for you what kind of country that is? If it oppresses and jails and exiles and kills it's citizens? As long as it is ethnically and nationalistically "slavic" it's okay in your book? Deserving your support? No matter if it makes the lives of Slavs miserable?

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]


How so?

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]

No idea....

But if there will be really a "bottleneck" this winter then we will learn all about it!

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]

Yeah....one hopes Baerbock sees the light....

News / New Nuclear Ambitions Of Belarus: cooperation with Poland in the energy deliveries to the EU countries [20]

Aaaaand....there is more as SPIEGEL reports today (Google translate)


spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/gazprom-fuellt-deutsche-gasspeicher-nicht-auf-a-a76e5e8a-ba67-4d86-8846-6af453c5df5e

Russian President Putin had actually announced that he would be delivering more gas to Germany from November - but new figures show that the storage facilities remain surprisingly empty. Are there now any bottlenecks looming in winter?

We need to go green like yesterday...

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Crap!

History / Amazing Stalingrad footage and images [13]


Every people....every country needs a founding myth....the more dramatic the better!

For German(ic)s it's the "Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald".....we "Barbarians" coming together for the first time to kick truly ass! :)

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

I think they did....but now it needs the approval of the member states....Poland already said it is not happy!

The European Commission on Wednesday (1 December) proposed letting member states bordering Belarus, and facing migrant flows allegedly orchestrated by Minsk, to keep arrivals' asylum claims in legal limbo for longer. But Poland called the move 'counter-productive'.

euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/poland-frowns-at-eu-proposed-longer-legal-limbo-for-migrants-from-belarus/

The proposal needs approval from the EU's member states to go ahead....

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

Leave him alone....someone has to know and to value the beauty of language!

I suck in two languages...

News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]


I doubt that, the polls in Ukraine say something different....with every agressive move of Putin the support for the West and especially Nato grew....

I have to meet yet also some russian friendly - Putin apologizing Pole...

Where do you think Putin win's points with his behaviour? Even the opposition in Belarus is growing...

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Now look at that:


politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/fortress-europe-weakens-asylum-rights-holding-out-for-a-hera-statues-of-limitation/

EU BOWS TO EASTERN PRESSURE TO WEAKEN ASYLUM RIGHTS: The European Commission will today propose allowing Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to disregard certain migrant and asylum protections. It's a major concession to the Eastern capitals, in particular Vilnius and Warsaw, who had called for more "flexibility" in dealing with migrants funneled to the EU borders by Belarus.....

News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]


Yeah....welll.....that was not a very smart move back then:


france24.com/en/20080304-ukraine-threatens-block-europe-gas-supplies-russia-ukraine

...A similar dispute between Moscow and Kiev at the start of 2006 disrupted supplies to Europe, triggering a political crisis and leading to questions about Russia's reliability as an energy supplier.

Almost a quarter of Europe's gas comes through Ukraine....

That was the birth of Nordstream 2 if I remember correctly.....to make sure no instable regime has the power to do that anymore!

News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]

....interesting! :)

News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]

......and that's why the title isn't "History repeats itself", as it is really said....I guess.....heh:)

Those Polandballs are not only cute but educating...I googled that:

idi nahui

Russian insult that literally translates into "go to a dick" and is used in the same context as the English term "**** off".

News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]

.....that they (will) do it for Ukraine....they didn't do it for Poland or Czechoslovakia, remember?

(And secretly they think themselves much "better", much more worthy than poor Ukraine)

Look at the title: "History repeats"