Cold war 2.0

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Spanish election: Drug trafficker links trigger questions for Feijóo

Italy’s decision on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and beyond

Macron slams EU Commission for hiring American economist

US soldier detained in North Korea after crossing border

 

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Russia batters Ukraine’s grain infrastructure for 4th night

Russian air strike damages Chinese consulate in Odesa

A call from the front line: We want to end this war as quickly as possible

Why Belgium may be about to break up

 

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The Spanish elections and potential outcomes, explained

In other words no matter which result we get this will almost surely result with a mess.




Russia closes Crimea bridge — again — after attack on ammo depot

Pro-war nationalist and Putin scourge Igor Girkin held on extremism charges

 

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Why copying the far-right doesn't work

Who would have guessed ?



Spain's rightwing parties ahead in election — polls

In a few hours we will know how the vote really looks like.

 

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German center-right leader mulls cooperation with far right at municipal level


There you go Herring.
I told you about a year ago that the guy will do it.

 

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Spain election: Right-wing bloc ahead, falls shy of majority

This will be tight however you turn it.
In other words if the right doesn't have the majority then center left, far left and Catalonian separatists will have it. What is the combination that ruled for the last 4 years.

 

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Spanish elections: Sánchez holds off right surge

The right just doesn't have enough seats to take power (and unlike the left it doesn't have the place from where to take them).

 

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Also once powerful centrist party lost the last of it's seats.

 

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German center-right leader mulls cooperation with far right at municipal level


There you go Herring.
I told you about a year ago that the guy will do it.

LOL. He backpaddled almost immediately. After severe criticism from within his own party he tweeted that, obviously, the party resolution on not cooperating with the AfD , not even on a municipal level, was still valid and claimed to never have said otherwise (which is bullshit, he was testing the waters).

In any case, his remarks were explicitely about municipal level, where party politics play much less of a role and it's more about "Do we build a traffic light at that crossing?" or "What building could be used for the new youth center?". The CDU in the East is already doing this in a few villages, as far as I know, simply because in some places the AfD is so big that you can't just ignore them if the administration is to keep running. It's an issue of local party groups in small towns and villages occasionally acting against national level party resolutions, mainly in the East.

 

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LOL. He backpaddled almost immediately. After severe criticism from within his own party he tweeted that, obviously, the party resolution on not cooperating with the AfD , not even on a municipal level, was still valid and claimed to never have said otherwise (which is bullshit, he was testing the waters).

In any case, his remarks were explicitely about municipal level, where party politics play much less of a role and it's more about "Do we build a traffic light at that crossing?" or "What building could be used for the new youth center?". The CDU in the East is already doing this in a few villages, as far as I know, simply because in some places the AfD is so big that you can't just ignore them if the administration is to keep running. It's an issue of local party groups in small towns and villages occasionally acting against national level party resolutions, mainly in the East.

Yeah, I later saw that he tried to take it back. However since he is testing the waters it is now obvious that his is open to various ideas with AfD.
The things is that I have much more experience with center right + far right governing and from the start I had this impression that he will not be able to resits the temptation. After all just a mile down the road I have hundreds of thousands of people under such governing combination (and center right is junior partner). In Germany this is still a taboo topic but with current AfD surge I am not sure for how long you can just ignore them. After all this is kinda what is causing the surge in the first place.

 

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...center right + far right governing and from the start I had this impression that he will not be able to resits the temptation.

FYI, I don't think politicians abandoning any concept of principle is based on their ideology (left or right). They will all whore themselves out for power.

I'm getting to witness it first hand right now in Canada, where our minority left wing party (the Liberals) have formed a coalition with the far left party (New Democrats)to prevent another election. The damage they are doing (i.e. massive deficits) will be felt for generations to come, but they don't care. Holding on to power trumps good governance in every politician's mind.

 

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FYI, I don't think politicians abandoning any concept of principle is based on their ideology (left or right). They will all whore themselves out for power.

I'm getting to witness it first hand right now in Canada, where our minority left wing party (the Liberals) have formed a coalition with the far left party (New Democrats)to prevent another election. The damage they are doing (i.e. massive deficits) will be felt for generations to come, but they don't care. Holding on to power trumps good governance in every politician's mind.

The thing is that new leader of German center right is pretty right wing. So it is indeed kinda to be expected that he will try to make something with far right. Because otherwise one day he will have to rule in combination with some left wing party. While objectively far right is closer to his own position on most topics. So here I think there is more than just pure self preservation. This actually makes sense ideologically regardless of what you are thinking about the guy.


However I do understand you regarding the public debt and this is actually one of the things where I am fairly to the right. The problems must not be ignored but out of control spending is evidently bad. Since fairly quickly the debt will start to choke the whole system and then you will struggle with maintaining even the basics. If you have reserve currency of the world you can perhaps soften this a little bit, however if you aren't American you actually need to repay the debt with interest and that will probably only drain you in the end. Actually I have experiences with politicians that were big spenders that solved little. They spent the money on nonsense and thus infrastructure still went to shit. What is a mess that takes many years and plenty of extra money to fix. Therefore I fully understand.

The debt clock says 129.6% of GDP for Canada's public debt and that is evidently too much. Especially if the trend is further increase.

 

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There are some adds in the video but this is pretty decent evaluation of what is going on in EU politics.

 

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Russia strikes Ukraine’s grain export back door on the Danube River

Ukraine updates: IAEA confirms mines near Zaporizhzhia plant

Ursula von der Leyen is losing her team

Margrethe Vestager on failed US hire: ‘Shit happens’

 

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And Americans think that they have problems with partisan divisions.
But to be honest I think that there will be new snap elections around Christmas. This is basically ungovernable parliament.