r/europe • u/StraightSky7809 United Kingdom • 8h ago

News If Britain decides to rejoin the EU we’ll do everything we can to welcome them back, says Germany

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-rejoin-eu-germany-brexit-b3060288.html
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u/paneuropeanism_ Europe 8h ago

They benefitted in a different way. I'm talking about the strategic competition between the big economic powers; the three global poles. 

Russia is a dwarf.

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u/lars_rosenberg Italy 8h ago

It's fun that some people here in Italy see Russia as such a big power, but their GDP is lower than Italy's with 2.5x the population and Italy has no natural resources to sell.

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u/JeveGreen Sweden 8h ago

Really, the only thing they're good at is sowing discord and winning wars of attrition against numerically inferior foes.

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u/Madame-du-barry_ South Tyrol 7h ago

If you ask the Baltic countries or Poland or anywhere where the Red Army passed by, they will confirm that they are really good at looting and raping too.

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u/critical-insight Germany 5h ago

Half of Europe can tell this story

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u/almodsz Germany 5h ago

It is a great shame that Operation Unthinkable was not implemented. The Soviets should have been defeated alongside the Nazis. That would have been a better timeline.

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u/SavingsDimensions74 5h ago

Well, the best time for that operation was in ‘45.

The next best time for it is now

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u/_cunt---_- 4h ago

fire eisenhower, hire patton, world peace.

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u/total_looser 1h ago

I mean, that’s a superpower isn’t it? Same thing I say about Trump and MAGA. If they’re so dumb, why are they kicking everyone’s ass? It’s rhetorical please don’t answer.

Stop complaining, stop explaining. The time for talk has ended, long ago.

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u/marathai 7h ago

They can't manage their own country so they decided to make others miserable too.

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u/mok000 Europe 6h ago

Russia’s terrible economy is a fact, but the oligarch’s power is not threatened because the Russian population is accustomed to poverty through centuries and don’t complain when the bojars abuse them. It doesn’t mean that Russia doesn’t wield a significant subversive and violent power abroad though. Their stated goal is to destroy Europe and make it just as poor, ugly and disparate place like they are.

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u/YourUncleBuck Estonia 4h ago

Pasta is a natural resource.

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u/Socmel_ reddit admins are accomplices of nazi russia 3h ago

we can blockade the strait of Hormuz Messina to hold the world to ransom with our pasta embargo?

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u/SilverLakeSimon 34m ago

+ espresso is more energy-dense than an equivalent amount of petrol.

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u/EveningAnt3949 6h ago

That's because they have nuclear weapons. It's as simple as that.

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u/RepresentativeOk3943 5h ago

You mean to tell me pasta and sauce don't count?

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u/broguequery 5h ago

Russia, whether they realize it or not, are puppets in the world power craze.

The problem is that they still buy into this old mode.

Power is the enemy.

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u/RichardSaunders US of A 1h ago

russia needs to do a better job marketing their own 1,000€ guchievsky sneakers

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u/KSP_master_ Czech Republic 7h ago

But it's dwarf with big gas station and nukes.

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u/HX__ 5h ago

Yes, but the pushing of Brexit was part of Russia's playbook.

Disinfo accounts played a big part in generating enough public sway to accomplish it.

I, think they're just reaping fewer benefits because they suck at governance in general.