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Autobahn

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On September 13, 2022
The Germans’ obsession with driving incredibly fast across a country that isn’t even that large by the standards of the really big nations with big open spaces is something I’ve never quite gotten. And now that energy use in Germany really is on the front pages due to Russia….it isn’t really making any difference on […]
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Whether this can help us understand Qanon or not, I have no real opinion. But this story of the West German witchcraft allegations of the early 1950s is downright fascinating and I knew absolutely nothing about it. Doing research in a branch of the state library in Berlin a few years ago, I stumbled across […]
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I had an exchange with a friend earlier today. They suggested that NATO’s case of the Trumps is terminal. I disagreed, but suggested that a Trump victory in 2020 might very well render NATO largely irrelevant to the power politics of western Eurasia. I’m thinking that I might be too optimistic. The Pentagon is analyzing […]
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America’s Status in the World

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On February 3, 2017
The first two weeks of fascist America have really endeared us to the rest of the world. This week’s cover of Der Spiegel: Maybe we can go to war with the Germans at the same time that we are at war with Iran, China, and Australia, as well as massacring innocents in Yemen. Of course […]
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