This all depends on the level of corruption of the EU. If the president can delete her Pfizer negotiation messages then I am not very confident about the future of the EU.
You must know about aid to poor countries. It helps but it is often also a trap. Why should the EU be different?
China would still lose a war against the US. They have a huge interest in not rocking the boat to make it difficult for the US to fabricate a just war.
Russia and China have settled their border issues before the conflict. They are in this together.
China has no need to conquer Taiwan. Once they are technological leaders and have fancy stuff, Taiwanese people will want to join.
China was patient for decades. They won’t do something stupid now.
Is there a better insurance?
They would also only need the resources for internal consumption. There is no need to e.g. build and ship many cars if they don’t sell them.
They can get all missing resources from Russia.
Every way, that’s dangerous. Don’t spread thin on ways. Identify the goal and reach it on the most efficient way, with enough resources.
China has their own coal in Inner Mongolia. I think Russia is actually short of coal.
Don’t forget that the US want to contain China. Russia is China’s insurance against a naval blockade.
If we fight in Ukraine then yes. Otherwise they just have to do sanctions to the EU and supply Russia.
But you know my opinion, WW3 is coming no matter what.
I have extended my comment. The problem is that there is the possibility that the EU ends with its own oligarchs and police state. So what we fear from Russia can also come from the EU.
Russia never helped slovakia if it wasn’t for their own benefits.
Don’t forget that that is not only true for Russia. Russia is still the worse option but the EU is not for free.
Remember the billionaires that own more and more of the economy, and the increase in surveillance laws, there is a dark side to the EU, too, that threatens to take over.
China said they cannot afford to let Russia lose. We don’t have the capacities for rare earth extraction. If things get hot, how are we supposed to sustain a drone war that requires many magnets?
On the other hand, who would gain air superiority? Would there be trench warfare with drones if the front can be breached and tanks can rush into the back of the front? Nato won’t push slowly like Russia.
Jetzt noch Winner takes it all - Prinzip einführen, und wir haben amerikanische Verhältnisse.
To the country that finances the war in Sudan. Strategically it makes sense but it shows how thin our values are.
Of course. But resources are zero sum games. So if somebody wants more, somebody else gets less. That inevitably creates bad feelings somewhere.
People experiencing homelessness as a percentage of total population (2010-2023)
Das ist UK. Z.B. Finnland fällt.
Bis 2015 hat Deutschland mit sinkenden Einwohnern gerechnet. Da macht Wohnungsbau nicht viel Sinn.
Zum Vergleich:
Die USA haben nur 770.000 Obdachlose, davon allerdings wohl 300.000 unsheltered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States
In Deutschland dagegen
2024 waren demnach 1.029.000 Menschen in Deutschland wohnungslos, also ohne festes Mietverhältnis,
56.000 Menschen lebten ganz ohne Dach über dem Kopf, auf der Straße.
Für die Menschen auf der Straße gäbe es noch Wohnungen, für alle Obdachlosen gibt es sie nicht.
Geschosswohnungen, die unmittelbar vermietbar oder mittelfristig aktivierbarer sind – lag Ende 2022 bei 2,5% oder rund 554.000 Ein- heiten
Pro Jahr können 300.000 Wohnungen gebaut werden
bis 2023 wurden durchschnittlich fast 300.000 Wohnungen jährlich fertiggestellt.
Der Bedarf wächst auch noch:
ist die Bevölkerung in Deutschland somit im Jahr 2024 um 121 000 Personen beziehungsweise 0,1 % gewachsen, nachdem sie im Vorjahr noch um 338 000 beziehungsweise 0,4 % zugenommen hatte.
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/06/PD25_221_124.html
Hier ist die Anzahl der Obdachlosen pro freier Wohnung im internationalen Vergleich von Ländern mit viel Wohnraum:
https://realestatemagazine.ca/canada-ranks-11th-for-the-highest-proportion-of-empty-homes/
Are they real or like North Stream 2, projects to create the illusion that Germany is still committed to a joined future with China?
As a joke. Let’s not pretend that the EU is the empire nowadays. Napoleon seeded the current one by selling the Mississippi. Germany is about to lose like Alderaan. Btw, that’s the biggest strategic blunder ever, to trade the Mississipi for the Rhine.
Like NApOleonic France, our NATOleonic protector surely will support our unity and independence and hasn’t suggested an increase in military budgets to support continuing conquests.
In the context of the movie, the EU is strangling the country that could have been their partner because they feel betrayed. I am not sure if there will be children but it seems more and more likely that the democracies will turn into an empire.
manoeuvering to make it permanent
How? They can control the US but they will lose the world if they destroy the creativity and drive of the people of the US, and of the people who want to become citizens of the US. If China becomes the technological leader, entertainment and finance will follow. US companies and billionaires will be as influential as French ones.
There was no need to control more. The billionaires have controlled the media and thus the outcome of elections and legislations. All behind a nice fassade so that it bothered noone.
Trump only makes sense as a distraction.
Is there anything critical that they need to import from overseas? Otherwise life won’t change much for Chinese people but it will change big time for everybody else.