In addition to being the main economic engine in Europe, Germany is the epicenter of the European Union’s overall goal to chase the green energy agenda.
For the past several years Germany has been deconstructing their fossil fuel energy production and replacing it with far more expensive alternatives. This has led to large increases in overall energy prices, and downstream increases in manufacturing costs.
The consequences have been snowballing throughout 2025, while cheap competitive alternatives coming into the EU from China have compounded their problem. Recently a survey of major industries was conducted in Germany to determine the forecast for 2026, the results are not good.
Approximately half of the industrial sectors in Germany are anticipating job losses, cuts or layoffs this year.
22 out of 46 business associations are preparing to downsize their labor force. Only 9 of the 46 are expected to increase hiring.
At a top-line this looks bad. However, when you look at the sectors contracting versus the sectors stable or expanding, you suddenly realize there is a bigger geopolitical problem within the forecast.
Job losses are expected in auto manufacturing, the textile sector, wood and paper fabrication. Job gains are expected in aerospace, shipbuilding and defense production – i.e. the war machinery.
When the largest and most developed industrial economy in Europe is pinning its economic survival on war machinery, a particular momentum is created. It is never a good outcome for Europe when Germany becomes reliant on war to maintain employment.
Unfortunately, that economic forecast does provide context to the German position for continued Ukraine/Russia conflict. You might say that without a war, Germany could slip into a severe economic contraction; not good.
BERLIN, Dec 29 (Reuters) – A majority of German business associations expect job cuts in 2026 as the country’s economic crisis persists, with industry hit hardest by global protectionism and weak exports, a survey by the German Economic Institute IW showed on Monday.
Of 46 business associations surveyed, 22 anticipate workforce reductions next year. Only nine expect to increase hiring and 15 foresee stable employment levels.
[…] Some bright spots emerged in sectors benefiting from increased defense spending, including aerospace and shipbuilding. (read more)
We will keep watching with additional background context for the Ukraine/Russia negotiations.
The war will end and Germany will experience the “discomfort” of the many bad choices they have made.
Ankle-La’s dream.
As goes Germany, so goes the EU.
And that is the problem.
Germany lost its Sovereignty when it joined EU!
The rules and regulations placed by the unelected officials in
the EU like Ursula Fond of Lying . I believe they are working
on Sanctions package #20 now! 🤪
The 💥 💥 💥 of Nordstream.
Germany lost its cheap reliable energy source. 💥 💥
Pouring massive amounts of money 💰 into the lost cause -Ukraine
This was predicted when Russia- Ukraine conflict began —and especially
when Nordstream was blown up. 🤷♀️ The loss of Nordstream was going to
hit Germany manufacturing in a Big way!! As in….destroy it!!
Predictions are now being seen. Just surprised it has taken so long.
And all of those issues listed above are magnified exponentially when the German government decided it was in everyone’s best interest for their energy policy to be “go green.”
Nordstream was 💥💥
Then combine with all the EU sanctions packages.
They are working on #20 now.🤪
Manufacturers can’t get materials to make their products
at a reasonable price, combined with no more cheap reliable
energy costs. They leave. 🤷♀️
Manufacturing before the
Russia- Ukraine conflict began….end of Feb 2022.
And then the 💥💥of Nordstream..September 2022
and now for EU countries….including Germany….
Comparison is…😳
Germany is/was the biggest manufacturing country in EU.
What will it mean for EU if Germany manufacturing collapses?
Measure by EU to keep manufacturing going in Germany—
put it in….War Economy?
That is one of the reasons EU wants to keep the Russian-Ukraine
conflict going? ? 🤔 EU dug a hole and they just keep digging!
Me—- let the EU unelected kakistocracy implode- then disappear.
Allow Germany to become Sovereign.🤷♀️
Production: Manufacturing: Total Manufacturing for Euro Area (19 Countries) (PRMNTO01EZQ657S) | FRED | St. Louis Fed
RHnuttall…Sept. 2024
Top 10 Biggest Manufacturing Companies in the EU
It was definitely in Goddless China’s interest..
Germany will be the 4th it 5th Reich and it all starts again. And the ridiculous countries will take sides again.
The over-efucated, sometimes pompous Germans also shut down nuclear power plants, like much of Europa.
Is AfD their last chance?
Europe appears to be backing Conservative leaders across the board.
AfD is their last chance IMHO.
yep and uk is already gone…
Germany is the EU.
Does this resemble anyone else we are all familiar with, with mentally ill eyes and long expression?
Curious how both leftist women look so alike. It actually took a moment to decide which harpy I was looking at.
From your comment, I infer that you understood my meaning 😉
Blackrock Merz🤷♀️
That was his nickname even before he ran
for election.
😉 😉 Says a lot🤷♀️
Do you listen to Alex Christoforou?
She may be one of the most pernicious leaders the modern west has ever had, but do not discount the 70+ years of enforced behavioral modification, and mass migration into Germany. They have been conditioned to loathe themselves and embrace nihilism.
Never assume it is all.
That have been made for them. Not all Germans were on board with the invasion.
shouldn’t we assume they will all be directed toward rebuilding der fuhrer’s new army?
Using the muslim invaders? Who will they draft into their army?
Germany couldn’t fight a war. Only provide more weapons to Ukraine.
Yes, and this might not even be true.
not YET, but that was true in the weimar period, as well. its almost to the year 100 years ago. eerie.
Sorry but that isn’t going to happen. The ethnic Germans are finished. They will not fight back.
Who is going to pay for the welfare grifting MOISLEMS?
Interesting people who are not participating in fascist empires go to “work” camps to learn how to support the regime.
Didn’t that happen to American Patriots on the Epiphany 2021?
we are.
They will continue to do it. Most of the actual German people have no fight in them.
I guess all the skinheads of the 1980s are near retirement age by now.
Oy!
No Thugs in Our House
XTC
[Verse 1]
The insect-headed worker wife will hang her waspies on the line
The husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor
His viscous poly-paste breath comes out
Their wall-paper world is shattered by his shout
A boy in blue is busy banging out a headache on the kitchen door
[Pre-Chorus]
And all the while Graham slept on
Dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to
[Chorus]
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
[Verse 2]
The young policeman who just can’t grow a moustache will open up his book
And spoil their breakfast with reports of Asians who have been so badly kicked
“Is this your son’s wallet I’ve got here?”
“He must have dropped it after too much beer!”
“Oh, officer, we can’t believe our little angel is the one you’ve picked!”
[Pre-Chorus]
And all the while Graham slept on
Dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to
[Chorus]
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
[Bridge]
They never read those pamphlets in his bottom drawer
They never read that tattoo on his arm
They thought that it was just a boys club badge he wore
They never thought he’d cause folks any harm
[Verse 3]
The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line
She’s singing something stale and simple now this business has fizzled out
Her little tune is such a happy song
Her son is innocent, he can’t do wrong
‘Cos Dad’s a judge and knows exactly what the job of judging’s all about
[Pre-Chorus]
And all the while Graham slept on
Dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to
[Chorus]
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
No thugs in our house, are there dear?
We made that clear
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
No thugs in our house!
No thugs in our house!
No thugs in our house, dear!
The 1945 pillaging of East Germany by the Soviets will be nothing compared to what the Muslims will do to them.
The Mohammed Retirement Plan Won’t Save European Socialism. It Will Bury It
Europe expects the Muslim world to bail out its shrinking birth rate by working and paying into the system so that its aging population can retire.
The Muslim migrants, however, expect Europe to subsidize their large families with its welfare state while they deal some drugs and chop off some heads on the side.
Why should 23-year-old Mohammed work for four decades so that Hans or Fritz across the way can retire at 61 and lie on a beach in Mallorca?
Mohammed is Fritz’s retirement plan. But Mohammed has a very different type of plan.
Fritz is counting on Mohammed to work while he relaxes.
Mohammed relaxes and expects Fritz to work. Fritz is not related to him and, therefore, Mohammed sees no reason why he should work to support him.
European social democracy reduces society to a giant insurance plan in which money is pooled together.
But insurance is forbidden in Islam, which considers it to be gambling. European social democracy expects him to bail it out, but to Mohammed, European values are a crime against Islam.
Mohammed’s Imam will tell him to work off the books because paying into the system is gambling.
However, taking money out of the system is just Jizya, the money non-Muslims are obligated to pay to Muslims. Under Islamic law, it’s better for Mohammed to sell drugs than to pay taxes.
That’s why drug dealing and petty crime are such popular occupations for Salafis in Europe. It’s preferable to steal from infidels than to participate in the great gamble of the European welfare state.
Mohammed isn’t staking his future on the shaky pensions of European socialism. He invests in what social scientists call social capital.
He plans his retirement by having a dozen kids.
If this lifestyle is subsidized by infidel social services, so much the better. And when social services collapse, those of his kids who aren’t in prison or in ISIS will be there to look after him in his golden years.
As retirement plans go, it’s older and better than the European model.
Great synopsis. Did u fly Nimrods?
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They will come to Minnesota and have Tampon Timmy pay them….
jizya
The picture of Putin and Xi are them toasting the splitting up of Europe in 43 little pieces and sharing them with the Islamic World. An ill wind is blowing. We need out fast.
Russia doesn’t want an Islamic Western Europe.
well, they will be unable to stop it by sitting in ukraine….
The Russian Federation has a very large Muslim population and is surrounded by Islamic countries (former Soviet Republics). They have had major problems but Putin is willing to fight back. See the Chechen war.
Russia has many Muslims. It’s a constant battle to keep them in check but at least Putin is willing to fight back.
We need out fast.
indeed. nothing good comes of trump meeting personally with Z. months have been added to “on the first day.”
🎯
It is disturbing to read the statement, ‘‘When the largest and most developed industrial economy in Europe is pinning its economic survival on war machinery, a particular momentum is created. It is never a good outcome for Europe when Germany becomes reliant on war to maintain employment.”
War is death and destruction. That a nation who engaged in two World Wars would see war as an economic benefit, shows a dark and evil mentality. What happens when the nation runs out of people of other countries to maim and murder? Birth rates are declining which results in a finite group of people which Germany can target to keep ”war” going.
I have never dwelled much on the biblical message of ”Armageddon”, but I believe the world is fast approaching that scenario.
Modern day Germans have no will to fight. Many hate themselves for being German especially in what was West Germany. They are ok with be overrun by Muslims.
Get right, and stay right with God. Put your spiritual house in order. All will be well according to the will of God.
War and the production of the equipment of war requires money. Bankrupt countries fund war with what?
Germans tend to believe themselves more intelligent and more capable than others- to the extent that they refuse to believe they’re possibly wrong regardless of overwhelming facts. They don’t have exclusive rights to this, but they are always at the top of the top tier.
famine, pestilence,war and death….the 4 horsemen.
It was called the “black death” and we’ve already seen it once.
That a nation who in two World Wars would see war as an economic benefit, shows a dark and evil mentality
Well, they’re not admitting that that’s their mentality
It’s Sundance that wrote that characterization, to grace us with his clear assessment of reality
… you know – for any of us who require it be spelled out
This was a topic of discussion I had with my son, brought up by his very concerned friend (Orthodox Jewish), although the passages of relevance are in Ezekiel 36-38, especially 38. The prophet foretells that God will, for His Name’s sake, re-gather the Jews in Israel, and complete the punishments of them as outlined in Leviticus 26 and elsewhere, until they repent and turn to Him.
Israel is late in the regathering process now (my former church was one of many that taught Israel could never again be a country, because God had cursed it to remain scattered among the nations). It is referred to as “the time of Jacob’s trouble” when every other country on earth turns against them; Zechariah 13:8-9 gives details. Hal Lindsay wrote “The Road to Holocaust” in 1989 discussing what was forming then and what we are seeing openly now on the conservative side. It will be much worse.
Armageddon is at the conclusion of the later Wrath of the Lamb against all others who do not repent and turn to Him, in Revelation. Chapters 2 and 3 contain explicit instructions and warnings from Jesus Himself for the churches, along with instructions to read it and the promise of a blessing for reading that book of prophecy.
Most churches follow Augustine’s City of God Book XVI chapter 2 and do not study these chapters because they focus on Israel (“The object of the writer of these sacred books, or rather of the Spirit of God in him, is not only to record the past, but to depict the future, so far as it regards the city of God; for whatever is said of those who are not its citizens, is given either for her instruction, or as a foil to enhance her glory. Yet we are not to suppose that all that is recorded has some signification; but those things which have no signification of their own are interwoven for the sake of the things which are significant… So in this prophetic history some things are narrated which have no significance, but are, as it were, the framework to which the significant things are attached.”)
Bear in mind that there are currently many Messianic Jewish churches in Israel. Churches that are intimately familiar with both the Old and New Testaments.
What we appear to be witnessing unfold:
Ancient maps would have the rising sun (east) at the top, and north to the left. When scripture refers to the uttermost north, it did not mean the north pole in the original context.
Magog refers to the Scythians (according to Hesiod and Herodotus); generally this was, originally, the area north of the Black Sea from the Danube to the Dan Rivers, invading eastward. Many have identified them as Russians, but the earliest area was west, Ukraine. Rosh, Meshach and Tubal are Anatolia / Turkey; Persia (generally Iran); Ethiopia (generally); Libya / N. Africa; Gomer (Danube, Rhine, Germany); house of Togarmah (Armenia). These attack a generally complacent Israel because they need material goods. This is not a primarily religious war, but an economic war to take spoil.
These appear to be aligning now. Sheba and Dedan (Saudi Arabia) are not joining them when the attack on Israel occurs.
For context missing in most Bibles, Amos 7:1 in the Septuagint: Thus the LORD God showed to me, and behold, a breed of locusts coming in early morning, and behold one grasshopper – Gog the king. From Proverbs 30:27: The locusts have no king, yet they all advance in ranks. Apparently Gog is one of the higher-level demon locusts from Revelation 9. The king there (Rev. 9:11) is Apollyon (destroyer); Joel 2 also describes them.
I would get a physical copy of a good Bible (NKJV) and study it like your eternity depended upon it.
Modern day Europeans are the dumbest people in the history of the world.
This I agree with and most would run the other way if they had to fight in a war.
When they are unwilling to speak up and step up to prevent the destruction of their own nation from within, there is zero chance they’ll do so for someone else’s land.
All the people of the EU and UK should have long ago embraced the hard learned lessons spoken by Solzhenitsyn…
“The Hun are either at your feet, or at your throat.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
The UK were no better.
Let’s keep them at our feet.
So you might as well live at their throats.
F’n Germany. Causing the world problems sine 1900.
It would have been ok if Germany – Austria won what became WWI. The UK and Russia escalated.
“The
UK and Russiamonarchies of Europe escalated”Yes, it was a war of Empires but Germany and the US were the top 2 world economic powers. The British Empire was in massive decline they needed war. The British got America involved.
The money changers got us into both wars.
The Anglo Elites were a major factor. The British Empire was toast. They needed war but it didn’t save their empire.
It was the Hohenzollern Kaiser, Hapsburgs and Ottoman Empire against the Windsors, Romanovs and French.
Dynastic Empires on all sides. Most of them were cousins, literally, and so inbred they had inherited genetic diseases.
The House of Windsor changed their title from Saxony Coburg Gotha in 1917.
It wasn’t by accident that Coburg was spared in WWII.
Despite warnings from Aesop (and Sundance) about the follies of history repeating themselves, Germany didn’t listen and now is a classic example of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
The twin economic miracles of the former Axis powers, Japan and Germany, began their descent into delusion and wishful thinking with the Baby Boomers who started growing hair and stopped growing babies! That is the generation that produced the numbest of numbskulls, Al Gore, and his evil spawn, Greta Thunberg, both demonstrably dumb as bricks, yet lionized by the wine-sotted think tanks favored by the same oligarchs who bought and paid for Merz, Macron, Starmer and all the green algae-loving, fossil fuel-eschewing governments of Western Europe who believe with all their hearts that cow flatulence is a greater threat to Western civilization than nuclear war!
My advice to Germans looking to keep warm during what promises to be yet another bitterly cold winter is to save all those cow flops to burn for heat! Which begs the question, where are Al and Greta spending their winters these days?
I suspect the answer to that would be An Inconvenient Truth!
The “economic miracles” of the japs and krauts were provided and paid for by the United States. The UK has never been our friend. Churchill got the U.S. into both WWI and WWII by lies and subterfuge. They are trying to do the same thing now. I’m pretty sure Trump sees this and is trying to stop it.
The UK has never been our friend. TRUE
Churchill got the U.S. into both WWI and WWII by lies and subterfuge. LARGELY TRUE. Wilson was the London globalist banksters’ puppet, as were Harding, Coolidge, Roosevelt and all the others except for Kennedy (they murdered him) Nixon (they scandalized him into resignation), Reagan (they shot him which made him back off), and Trump (they’re still trying to kill or impeach him.)
Yes, Wilson was an Anglo elite.
Woody took us off the gold standard I believe! He’s one of the dregs to bring us down
West Germany actually recovered prior to the Marshall Plan. Everything else I agree with.
A little historical fog here. The Marshall Plan was instituted in April of 1948. The split of East and West Germany took place in May of 1949.
What had West Germany recovered from by a year in then? I am not following your comment.
Here is a good + detailed explanation of what happened.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GermanEconomicMiracle.html
Here is a snippet but I would read the entire article.
“The Marshall Plan
This account has not mentioned the Marshall Plan. Can’t West Germany’s revival be attributed mainly to that? The answer is no. The reason is simple: Marshall Plan aid to West Germany was not that large. Cumulative aid from the Marshall Plan and other aid programs totaled only $2 billion through October 1954. Even in 1948 and 1949, when aid was at its peak, Marshall Plan aid was less than 5 percent of German national income. Other countries that received substantial Marshall Plan aid exhibited lower growth than Germany.
Moreover, while West Germany was receiving aid, it was also making reparations and restitution payments well in excess of $1 billion. Finally, and most important, the Allies charged the Germans DM7.2 billion annually ($2.4 billion) for their costs of occupying Germany. (Of course, these occupation costs also meant that Germany did not need to pay for its own defense.) Moreover, as economist Tyler Cowen notes, Belgium recovered the fastest from the war and placed a greater reliance on free markets than the other war-torn European countries did, and Belgium’s recovery predated the Marshall Plan.
Conclusion
What looked like a miracle to many observers was really no such thing. It was expected by Ludwig Erhard and by others of the Freiburg school who understood the damage that can be done by inflation coupled with price controls and high tax rates, and the large productivity gains that can be unleashed by ending inflation, removing controls, and cutting high marginal tax rates.
About the Author
David R. Henderson is the editor of this encyclopedia. He is a research fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was a senior economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers”
Here is the introduction. As I mentioned I read the entire article.
“After World War II the German economy lay in shambles. The war, along with Hitler’s scorched-earth policy, had destroyed 20 percent of all housing. Food production per capita in 1947 was only 51 percent of its level in 1938, and the official food ration set by the occupying powers varied between 1,040 and 1,550 calories per day. Industrial output in 1947 was only one-third its 1938 level. Moreover, a large percentage of Germany’s working-age men were dead. At the time, observers thought that West Germany would have to be the biggest client of the U.S. welfare state; yet, twenty years later its economy was envied by most of the world. And less than ten years after the war people already were talking about the German economic miracle.
What caused the so-called miracle? The two main factors were currency reform and the elimination of price controls, both of which happened over a period of weeks in 1948. A further factor was the reduction of marginal tax rates later in 1948 and in 1949.”
I should have said the Marshall Plan had minimal impact on Germany’s recovery.
“After World War II the German economy lay in shambles. The war, along with Hitler’s scorched-earth policy, had destroyed 20 percent of all housing. Food production per capita in 1947 was only 51 percent of its level in 1938, and the official food ration set by the occupying powers varied between 1,040 and 1,550 calories per day. Industrial output in 1947 was only one-third its 1938 level. Moreover, a large percentage of Germany’s working-age men were dead. At the time, observers thought that West Germany would have to be the biggest client of the U.S. welfare state; yet, twenty years later its economy was envied by most of the world. And less than ten years after the war people already were talking about the German economic miracle.
What caused the so-called miracle? The two main factors were currency reform and the elimination of price controls, both of which happened over a period of weeks in 1948. A further factor was the reduction of marginal tax rates later in 1948 and in 1949.”
Money changers got us into both, used Churchill as a pawn
So very true mostlyOgauge.
The British never paid back the loans we gave them during WWII.
I doubt they ever even intended to do so.
Foreign countries have been sucking money out of the USA for a very long time.
There is the AFD in Germany but so far they don’t have coalition partners to form a government. Also they are not going to leave the EU. Even Orban in Hungary will not leave the EU.
The boom in babies began when the War II was ending and troops were returning (1944-45} Korea (1953). 1944-1954 birthed the true boomers. Return to normal until The Pill was invented.
The pill in tandem with the rise of radical neo-feminism, espousing hatred of all men as toxic and all stay-at-home moms as unambitious.
Don’t leave out abortion, climate change (don’t have babies), and the alphabet soup movement with its culmination via the escape proof clause of “mutilate yourself so you can never have children.”
Re: “stay at home moms” – I think feminism was created partially to increase the labor supply and reduce wages, then came off-shoring and more recently illegal immigration.
My son and granddaughter visited Germany a couple years ago on a school visitor exchange program (they are in a deep blue area). But he told us how he almost kissed the ground when he finally landed back in the US. The family they stayed with (and probably many others!) had crazy policies – he froze at night trying to sleep because they turned the heat off, they were only allowed a very small bag for garbage (he would sneak some out of the house & surreptitiously dump it-food wrappers, etc.), no napkins at meals where they ate with fingers and passed around a cloth to wipe your hands on. He was definitely thankful to be back in the US and said he would never return to Germany for another visit.
That’s shocking, Pam! The US is still the place to be!
Germans have no will to fight. Most hate themselves for being German.
and yet consent is a helluva drug
I know current day Germany very well. They have no fight in them. Not sure they would even defend themselves against attack. This the case for all of the EU.
As shown, Germany needs war to simply hope to survive economically. Otherwise, they’ve destroyed their economy with the Green New Scam and culture-destroying immigration.
In the UK, and especially London, the insurance industry (headed by Lloyd’s) controls a massive amount of the world’s insurance market, and especially maritime insurance. And they too have destroyed their culture and economy with green fiascos and uncontrolled, non-assimilating immigration similar to Germany.
France is me-too with all of the absurdity.
Can you see why the Euro-crazies are all-in for the Ukrainian war to continue?
Germany will survive regardless. They are still a major economy. Most Germans are super pacifists and will not support a war machine. They are for Ukraine until they actually have to fight for Ukraine.
As we’ve seen from the UK draft plan, only native Germans will likely be drafted.
I wouldn’t make a bet on that…
I would. I am half German and know the place very well. The older East Germans have more fight but they grew up in the DDR and many are pro Russia.
I was talking about Germany “surviving”…
So, once again, we revisit the sad state of affairs in Germany. This time around, they are not going to be able to blame Jews for their hideous political failures.
no, they will blame russians. and the outcomes will be at least as awful.
Since everybody is blaming the Russians, are they in effect, also blaming China? I never hear the EU damning the alliance that is, with North Korea, much more effective than Europe at everything but importing criminals.
Happy New Year and thanks for the conversation!
Ethnic Germans of today are not going to fight. I am not even sure they would defend if attacked. They actually invited in Muslim hordes.
Maybe Germany will have to try invading Russia again.
Most ethnic Germans are not going to fight. Those days are long gone.
What could go wrong! 🥴
Loss of cheap and reliable energy….Nordstream💥💥💥
Pouring massive amounts of money 💰 into lost cause-Ukraine.
Being part of EU -and people like Fond of Lying telling your country
what it can do…or can’t do. 🤪🤪
Germany lost it’s Sovereignty a long time ago.🤷♀️
When the Nordstream was 💥💥💥most saw this coming.
Prediction playing out. 🤷♀️
Most ethnic German people are now self hating. Especially in what was West Germany. They have no fight left in them.
🥴 🥴
All of the EU countries….and all of the citizens?
The EU Kakistrocracy of unelected politicians are
running things. Only Orban and FICO are butting
heads with the EU. And EU finds different ways to
punish them….or try to😉
Germany was/ is the strongest EU economically regarding
manufacturing. Now that Nordstream is 💥💥, their
cheap source of energy was eliminated. That affects the
cost of manufacturing…Bigly. A lot of manufacturing companies
left.
The majority of the other EU countries are not doing
very well either. 🥴
The EU is now working on Sanctions package #20.🤪
Each sanctions package seems to only negatively affect
the EU countries. Can’t afford energy prices…sanctions
affect getting materials to make your product.
Another reason for manufacturing to leave. 🤷♀️
Nordstream was💥💥September 2022.
Combine with Russia- Ukraine conflict began end of Feb 2022.
Production: Manufacturing: Total Manufacturing for Euro Area (19 Countries) (PRMNTO01EZQ657S) | FRED | St. Louis Fed
I just don’t see these countries creating large war machines. Their citizens (especially ones connected to WWI and WWII) will not allow it to happen. Also companies are not totally aligned with the government. For example German companies have production facilities outside of Germany and the EU. The major EU economies will most likely survive regardless. That doesn’t mean they are not in for very rough sailing.
German manufacturing – top manufacturing
in EU.
RHnuttal….2024.
Top 10 Biggest Manufacturing Companies in the EU
When manufacturing cannot have access to cheap reliable
energy, combined with sanctions and they cannot get the
materials to make their products- they leave.
When manufacturing leaves you are without that source
of revenue and unemployment rises. 😳
We 🇺🇸 have been through that. 🥴Still trying to get
manufacturing back here.
Germany converts to War economy and war manufacturing –
that gives incentive to companies to stay- and people to
remain employed. When a choice is made to people—putting
food on the table by being employed…or not ..due to producing
a different product? Or, just allow the economy to collapse?
EU has dug a hole with the Russia-Ukraine conflict….and it keeps
digging.
Let’s come back to this in a year, assuming the Special Operation is still going, and see who was correct. I believe you are underestimating the overwhelming anti war sentiment of ethnic Germans.
Don’t cry for Germany. With only half the population, they still have more than twice the GDP of Russia, at $4.66 trillion versus just $2.17 trillion. This means the average German is more than 4 times as productive as the average Russian.
Yes, Germany will get hit hard but they will remain a world economic power for the foreseeable future. I don’t see them building a massive war machine because the post WWII ethnic Germans will not allow it and the Muslim hordes are too busy fighting an internal battle.
What a mess!
Germany has started two world wars. Germany has never been an American ally. Germany has never said ‘thank you’ for re-building our country from the devastation of a war Germany started. There was a document from a secret meeting that took place in 1944 when the Germans knew they were losing the war that wasn’t released to the American public until 1996 that describes the Germans design for winning the next war. You can find this document online – The Red House Report. The Nazis were never destroyed, they just went underground waiting for the opportunity to rearm militarily. Trump has given them that opportunity, in fact, he has forced them to do so. They have the perfect cover – America can’t be trusted to be their protector and because of Russia rising they must re-arm. Their army will most likely include other European nations, who also have no love for the U.S. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 – “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they will not escape.”
The Germany of today is not going to build a massive war machine.
So who is the real enemy?
Germany’s economy is more diversified and technologically advanced, with leading exports in machinery, vehicles, and chemicals. It benefits from a highly skilled workforce and strong industrial infrastructure. In contrast, Russia’s economy is heavily reliant on commodity exports, particularly oil and natural gas, making it more vulnerable to global price fluctuations.
While Russia has shown higher recent growth rates, Germany’s economic size, productivity, and per capita income remain substantially higher. Germany also maintains a larger trade volume and deeper integration with the European and global economies.
German engineering is in the rear view mirror of history, i.e. it doesn’t exist anymore. German autos once excellent are now cars one avoids due to mechanical issues. Audi, Mercedes, BMW are cars you either lease or buy used they have too many ‘surprises’ mechanically if bought brand new, plus they depreciate so rapidly that in a couple of years the cars are worth less than their market value. All inflicted on the citizens by the bureaucrats and politicians chasing green energy chimeras.
These WEF Euro weenies spell socialism as follows. Totalitarian. They are doomed on their reckless agenda.
Stupidly, could the Germans and the rest of the Euro-trash elites be thinking they could swallow up Russia’s natural resources and refinance their mismanaged economies? With America’s help of course …. The time to end the Marshal Plan has been long overdue.
Looked it up to find that back in 2011 Germany discontinued mandatory military service. Had no idea 🤷♀️.
I’m not sure I much care about Germany. Or anything European for that matter as we have large problem here in the U.S. that requires our President’s full attention.
I wonder how efficient a war machinery industry is, using green energy to fuel it.
Apologies for posting this comment under this thread, but it needs to be read.
LTG Flynn and many others want accountability. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/gen-michael-flynn-issues-urgent-open-letter-president/
When will this happen?
We are running out of time.
This is day 344, approaching the 12 month mark, 1 year anniversary of inauguration.
Yes, we are running out of time!
When are corrupt officials going to jail? (Wray, McCabe, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Vindman, etc.)
When are corrupt judges going to be removed from the bench? And their corrupt ruling overturned? (Merchan, Erdogan, Barrett, Boasberg, Chutkan, etc.)
When is Tina Peters going to be exonerated?
When will there be justice?
When will there be True accountability?
We know the enemy is working tirelessly to remove Trump, by any means necessary. They are already threatening vengeance against those who stand against the deep state.
EU Auto manufacturers are required to pay carbon offsets for not building enough electric cars. In their wisdom they pay this to Chinese electric manufacturers. They are paying to make electric cars that now get dumped around the world especially Europe. Go figure.
I remember in 1989, a good friend of mine who was from Poland and had lived there during communism was aghast when Germany was allowed to reunify its Eastern and Western sections back into one Germany. He said this never should have been able to take place ever again after what the German monsters did to the world twice in the 20th Century. I agree. Germany should’ve been broken up and reassigned to neighboring countries.
Anyone allowing these supremacists to ever go to a wartime footing is crazy and asking for it.
Always remember more Immigration Invaders=More Pollution, & Globull Warming Green House Gases!
Immigration-colonization, destroys the environment
He means Western former Nazarene nations, not Asia/China/India
The supposedly necessary policy (usually some aspect of destroying civilization) is always the true goal and the supposed goal (usually some aspect of saving civilization) is always a Big Obvious Lie posing as justification.
“We have to import welfare Muslims to save our society!”
“We have to destroy clean power plants to prevent pollution!”
“We have to criminalize disagreement to save democracy!”
“We need to make your doctor answer to us rather than you, to save lives and money!”
“We need centralized finance to make the economy work!”
If I wanted Germany/the EU to get into a hot war with Russia, I would figure out a way to make a large part of their population angry and unemployed, like strangle manufacturing, and then confront them with a threat from a traditional enemy like Russia. But that’s just me.
Hoping the same lattern does not emerge in US businesses.
No damn war.
Good. I hope they suffer economically
Merz is closing in on Merkel as Germany’s second worst Chancellor. If he succeeds in causing a nuclear war he goes to #1. Of course, Germany will no long exist.
How better to depopulate and destroy your own country/People, than to export wealth & pursue WWIII. There won’t be anything left worth stimulating…
And they KNOW it….
This is clearly the incremental communist takeover of Europe, sickening
In other words, Germany and other countries cannot be profitable without war! Hence the push of war with Russia. And their citizens will be forced into fake war. They will mostly lose to Russia. But Rutte of NATO will continues to blame Russia for their stupid fear mongering. If Trump is successful NATO will cease to be needed. When Trump is gone, the fear mongers may take over. Being as old as I am, I don’t want to see this and the end. It will not be the peace we all seek.
The EU’s plan, as usual is to have America bail out their countries ONCE their Insane Policies wreck all of them.
We need to help, BUT, a HUGE BUT, we also need to demand total Accountability!
This is current day Germany. The last quote is spot on.