Comments on: Quote note (#147)

By: Lightning Round – 2015/02/04 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2015/02/04 | Free Northerner — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:02:09 +0000

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By: This Week in Reaction (2015/01/30) | The Reactivity Place

This Week in Reaction (2015/01/30) | The Reactivity Place — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:00:46 +0000

[…] Land quotes Walter Russell Mead who, like Putin, is skeptical of Germany’s third, and to date most overwrought, attempt in a […]

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:12:05 +0000

Precisely, and the Greeks and the Russians have a long history.

Normally BTW the Greeks aren’t getting the better end of it, but with England out of the Med as the World superpower…and the US withdrawing/distracted…

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:10:10 +0000

You know Mr. Garr that is Brilliant.

My Rorschach approves.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:58:07 +0000

The EU is a German colony, and Germany extracts wealth from it just as like UK, France, et al once did in Africa and Asia. After suffering two world wars intiated by Germany, and now submitting to German colonial rule, perhaps Europeans should consider how Bismarck’s monster might be disassembled, preferrably without yet another European war.

The Greeks, of course, need to default and abandon the Euro. If they are lucky, the German lackeys will expel them from the EU. Expect Russia bases in Greek and Cypriot ports.

By: Garr

Garr — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:51:54 +0000

What if NRX with its would-be concubines of Putin shouts Take Us! and Putin sneers, No.

By: vxxc2014

vxxc2014 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:20:54 +0000

What if the world with it’s Whores and Politicians looks up at Putin and shouts Save Us! and Putin whispers: No.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:21:52 +0000

Saudi Arabia is a joke country. It would topple at the first push.

By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:50:06 +0000

The European situation is genuinely messed up … and it’s genuinely open-ended how it will play out. The current situation looks to me like a circular firing squad: Neither the Germans nor the Greeks can get what they want. The other PIIGS will be lining up for debt renegotiation if Greece gets a really good deal here. Putin’s bet probably is a pretty good one.

If the ECB had done QE earlier (and a lot more of it) these problems could have been headed off at the pass. Political revolt is what you get when you inflict 7 years of hopeless, grinding austerity on a foreign people, as the Germans have done to the PIIGS.

By: Stirner (@heresiologist)

Stirner (@heresiologist) — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:28:41 +0000

John Robb has some related thoughts on how Russia might reverse the squeeze they are in:

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/01/russias-way-out-of-its-financial-crisis.html