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Cold war 2.0

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Germany’s Merz secures breakthrough on gargantuan spending plan


Germany’s conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has reached a breakthrough with the Greens on a massive spending plan to unleash hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure.

“Germany is back,” Merz told reporters in Berlin on Friday.





German defense giant Rheinmetall overtakes VW valuation

Rheinmetall's value has more than tripled since Donald Trump became U.S. president in January, alongside those of many other big European defense companies,

Speaking of changing priorities.





EU lays out ‘massive investment’ boost in defense to deter Russia

The EU aims to launch a massive project to build up its defense industry aimed at deterring Russia and supporting Ukraine while the U.S. pulls backs from the continent,












Here is what incoming German head of state had to say (and expert behind him).
The part from 9:20 to 12:36 is what matters here.


Based on my conversations here yesterday I am simply under impression that people don't understand the scale of the political changes that are going in Europe. Which in the end will have quite visible global consequences.
 

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Big news that potentially have quite "observable" consequences: Certain pro Russian strongmen are under record pressure.


Serbia: Protesters flood Belgrade with Vucic under pressure

Massive crowds flood Belgrade as months of protests reach boiling point


Hungary's Orban vows crackdown on media, NGOs

Orbán vows crackdown on ‘shadow army’ of political opponents



In other words it seems that this will boil over either way. Especially since the pressure was mounting for many years.
While mix of inflation and evident corruption are basically making sure that things can't really calm down. Plus Ukraine and the mess in Ukraine is just across the street/border if we observe from global perspective. What in the end means that this is some sort of breaking point. After all if either one of these "regimes" falls the other one will as well. Since they are giving each other economic and political volume (since these are neighboring countries). However it must be said that changes here would give entire Europe much more breathing room. So the consequences are potentially pretty big on the long run.
 
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