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2025-10-20 10:37 UTC
@samueljohnson@mstdn.social
I was referring to this once famous 2007 article by Steinmeier, which was a kind of canonical text in the Wandel durch Handel thinking of German political class:
https://internationalepolitik.de/de/verflechtung-und-integration
When reading it today, one can only exclaim on most paragraphs “OMG how naive he was!”
Steinmeier’s problem was of course that he was brought up in the combination Christian morality and Germany’s post-war complex of guilt that he internalised so deeply, that he was unable that human societies developed very different moral systems out there. One of them is the predatory model, mastered by Putin. Everything else is the consequence of this blindness - if you hand a slice of bread to a crocodile because you only know horses, it will always end up in one way.
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social 2025-10-20 10:47
@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl Thanks. I note however, that Poland has a gas pipeline to Germany and can therefore be regarded as being willing to trade with former enemies, no doubt for pragmatic reasons. Here in Ireland the British in Northern Ireland (the local Donbas) refer to the natives as crocodiles. It's one of the reasons they will not tolerate street signs in the language of the natives or anything else they consider "feeding the crocodiles". We are, in fact, all mammals.