Comment by alecco

Comment by alecco 6 hours ago

Most of it caused by "Mama Merkel":

* She inherited a booming economy with very good reforms and plenty of budget surplus

* Let infrastructure to rot

* Energy production cratered and shifted to Russian gas dependency (high profile politicians related) showering Putin with billions every year

* Then tricking Puting to a peace agreement to quietly "rearm" Ukraine to prepare for war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements)

* Nuclear reactor dismantling

* Poisoned relationships with peripheral EU countries by forcing her brand of politics

* Persecution of opposition, branding "far right" anything right of center

* Destroying German identity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8PNgxbTE0o)

* Pushing police state and against free speech

* Failing upwards her protégé von der Leyen to the top of the EU, an incompetent, and unelected nepo-baby

* Forcing Germany and the EU to take in tens of millions (at least) of "refugees" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wir_schaffen_das ("we can take them", open doors, family "reunification", etc)

* Anti family hard-line feminist

TBF, at the time, I also fell to the propaganda of Merkel being the best and smartest stateswoman ever.

Sure, not everything she did was bad. But her legacy is now Germany's nightmare. And EU's, too. Untangling this mess will be very difficult.

jansan 6 hours ago

Also, she did not initiate a single structural reform in her 16 years of being chancellor. The public sector has become a huge burden for our country. It is just too expensive and just like AI is currently propping up the US economy, the growing public sector is what keeps Germany's economy afloat.

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lifestyleguru 6 hours ago

A failed attempt at Catherine the Great II. I don't understand how everyone could be so blind in regards of relations of top leaders with Russia, like Merkel and Schroeder.

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kome 6 hours ago

"TBF, at the time, I also fell to the propaganda of Merkel being the best and smartest stateswoman ever."

to be honest, this is what enrages me. I feel like I was in a madhouse; the mass media were pushing an image of Merkel as the only adult in the room and the patron saint of liberalism.

I saw, live, how she mismanaged the Eurocrisis, turning a banking crisis into a humanitarian crisis, and how her reaction to the invasion of Crimea was meek.

but if you dared to say something about this, you were seen as a dangerous communist or worse.

I hated her flawed politics for 15 years. But now, surprisingly, I kind of miss her. not because she was good; she was terrible as i said, but the new leadership, especially in Germany, is far worse: Friedrich Merz is a zero, and von der Leyen seems utterly retarded, and i don't mean it in a mocking way, but literally: they are always choosing the worst option for Europe at every step.

dark clouds over europe... but mostly, of our own making.

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