Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa

It depends. The German system applies only in Germany. Other systems may or may not have limitations at all.

Really, Poland should just have snatched him.


Deaths with, not from. Unlike most countries, we're honest about statistics. And given that we have Europe's biggest urban area and most important and thriving city, it's a credit to the government and people that the death rates weren't higher, as they would have been if the methods of mainland Europe had been used.


Or abusing it, by holding to it when it clearly impedes justice.


Tue. Some countries can be trusted less than others.

Can you stop deliberately removing names from your quotes? It's creepy.

@jon357


Sure. If you try someone in a German court, the German system applies. If you try someone in Poland, the Polish system applies. If you want to extradite someone, you'll have to convince the court of the country in question.


The UK had also some key advantages. It is literally an island and not that densely populated. Compare that to e.g. Germany, whose population is on average older, and was neighbouring countries that had extremely high infection rates at times (AUstria, Netherlands, Czech Republic). The jury is still out how badly the UK did compared to other European countries, but there is nothing to suggest that it perform well compared to most.


We are talking about not having enough evidence to charge someone with murder. That was the initial problem with prosecuting him. That is not abusing anything.

@Tacitus
Why do,you deliberately remove usernames from quotes?


Hard to know where you pulled that gem from Huge swathes are marginal land and most of the population are concentrated in urban conurbations.

BTW, our median age is only 3 years younger than yours, and due to the ethnic makeup of the U.K., especially England, there are many people living in extended families.


There's plenty to suggest that, especially the post-pandemic economic growth stats.

I was first to mention it two years ago. :):):)

All of us have some little obsessions in life. Simple.

@jon357


I do no such thing. They are just not in the brackets when I use them.


Might ask you the same question. You came up with the idea that the UK - an island no less - was in a uniquely challenging in Europe situation during Covid due to its' population density. Like seriously. As if being densely populated was something uniquely to the UK.... .

Stop using DOS system on your Spectrum gadget which you bought as a young boy. It is antiquity. Change to Windows.

That sounds evasive. And if it's clumsy English rather than deliberate evasion, it just doesn't wash either.

I'm posting on an iPad now, posted on an iPhone and a windows pc earlier, posted on a MacBook the other day and have posted on androids, Linux and a Raspberry Pi. I've posted on WiFi in many countries including yours and have posted on wired LAN connections including Iranian, on satellite scatter and on SIM cards in at least half a dozen countries including Germany and on a German sim. All since 2008, 16 years ago.

You've been deliberately deleting usernames since you started here in 2017. Either you're solely using a device or service that's over 7 years old, which is implausible or you're deliberately doing it.

No offence intended, but this is beyond hard to believe.


Looks like you misunderstood. The U.K. isn't an island, by the way.

And yes, its human geography in terms of population density and settlement patterns, as well as its housing stock, heath service, economy and culture are very much unique. And of course the London travel-to-work area is the largest urban and semi sprawl in Europe, making the Dutch Randstad look like a village.

No, I perfectly remember he was normal at the beginning. His little obsession started about 2 years ago when he confronted strong rebuttal from posters who didn`t like Germany`s helmet gift for Ukraine.


Be more understanding.

@pawian
If I was a cynic or conspiracy theorist, I'd have said he's paid to post here. But I'm not, so I wouldn't.

Would that I were! I'd be seeing reds under the bed and r*SSians with snow on their boots. In WW2, someone actually claimed they'd seen German soldiers with jackboots on dressed as nuns leading an advance invasion party on the east coast. They just turned out to be a group of particularly severe-looking and square-jawed nuns. Maybe they'd forgotten to shave that day

Poland doesn't think like Germany and the cultures cannot be united. A better combination would be to unite with Russia along with Belarus, but the West / EU / Germany will not allow that as they prefer to keep Poland weak.

@jon357


Believe what you want. It would be nice if the names were in the brackets, then I would not have to manually add the before I insert quotes, but it is how it is. I just copy what I want to quote and put it in quote brackets. Since everyone seems to understand when he is referred to, it is not a problem I am particulary interested in solving.


You... You are aware that the Netherlands have a more urbanized population than the UK right? And that it shares a land border with Belgium, the most urbanized country in Europe, and is partof/close to the most densely populated regions in Europe? Knowing that, no one could possibly believe that the UK was in a more challenging position during Covid than the Netherlands.

While the UK is surrounded by sea (and that land border in Ireland but still).

...which makes stopping the invasion by the foreign garbage harder...