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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding

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To: Joseph Silent who wrote (784)4/15/2018 12:47:05 PM
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France is Germany's co-equal partner in the EU but this doesn't give her much influence over France's military policy because there's no EU military, just the military forces of each country. Their forces cooperate under NATO, but again this was France and England acting individually apart from NATO.

Macron's actions are popular in France because their voter base is different and because the Russian government has been very uniquely unpopular with the French people for a long time due to a series of ham-handed actions by the Russians. In England they merely love every opportunity to pretend they are still a world power.

I hope I don't need to point out that Merkel has always had zero influence over the UK, which is what inevitably led to Brexit. You can't have one state who always insists upon their own special deal in everything, and ultimately not even these special deal were enough. So now the UK will discover what life is like without a collection of special deals. Life's going to be not as special.

The one stick Merkel has in Syria is stopping activity which would lead to more refugees, because she can make life difficult for people who have opposed refugees while also taking actions which create the problem. Until this point England has been able to say it was Putin creating the refugees, so it's not their problem, but if they become the refugee driver it becomes clear even to the English that this is would be a shit policy.
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