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For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]
Economic ties with Germany are not the reason of mentioned countries failure. Look at Netherlands - the most connected to Germany economy and doing well.
"...and do as much as possible on their own." - Asian Tigers economic growth teaches that the best way for economic success is copying western technologies, ignoring patents, protecting own market and supporting high value added and technologically advanced export (and investing in education of course)
"Instead of planning on building billion buck high tech nuclear reactors they should be building low tech bio digesters and converting coal into methanol. These things are doable" - can you link any paper comparing costs of both solutions?
"Take a page out of Switzerland's book, how to maintain independence when surrounded by countries many times larger and often times hostile." - this page says: "Become small, politically not important country with little natural resources, armed population and warn destruction of your own factories in case of being attacked (to say enemy that after attack we will be completely worthless for you).
"Why doesn't this calculation assess the value of the former German territories that became Polish after WW2?" - maybe because it's equaled by losses of greater territories of Poland on the east?
"Blaming someone else's dead grandparents for your current lack of Mercedes is infantile beyond belief." - but Poland is actually independent only since 90', before we couldn't demand compensation the way Jews did. Somebody wrote before that during soviet times majority of poles didn't want Marshal plan. You say what? It was not democracy that people would have anything to say. That was decision of communist government - puppets controlled by Russians.
"More than 30 percent of forrests were destroyed. " - wow, even forests.
