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  • @Cassilda
    7•2 years ago

    This article is super explosive. I realize it’s a RAND corporation document and not an official US government policy memo, but damn is it blatant.

    • @KommandoGZD
      11•2 years ago

      Holy shit. Do we know it’s legit? Because this is shocking even for a RAND report

      Edit: Seriously, I can’t believe this is real

      The prerequiste for Germany to fall into this trap is the leading role of green parties and ideology in Europe. The German Greens are a strongly dogmatic, if not zealous, movement, which makes it quite easy to make them ignore economic arguments. In this respect, the German Greens somewhat exceed their counterparts in the rest of Europe. Personal features and the lack of professionalism of their leaders - primarily Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck - permit to presume that it is next to impossible for them to admit their own mistakes in a timely manner.

      This sounds like it was written by a German AfD member or somthing, not like a US think-tank’s foreign policy paper. Even the language is off imo.

      • @Cassilda
        7•2 years ago

        It does sound really off, but the Nya Dagbladet is a reputable paper, so it must have at least seemed legit to whatever their fact-checking process is.

        Edit: see below on how I had mistaken this newspaper for another, more reputable one.

        • @KommandoGZD
          11•2 years ago

          Hm, that’s strange then. Just the closer I look at the report the weirder it sounds

          Another inevitable consequence of a prolonged economic recession will be a sharp drop in living standards and rising unemployment (up to 200,000-400,000 in Germany alone), which will entail the exodus of skilled labour and well-educated young people. There are literally no other destinations for such migration other than the United States today.

          Unfortunately, China is also expected to benefit over the medium term from this emerging scenario. At the same time, Europe’s deep political dependence on the U.S. allows us to effectively neutralise possible attempts by individual European states to draw closer to China.

          Note the spelling in neutralise too. You’d expect Yanks to spell it -ize, ay? In fact I looked through their 2019 Extending Russia report, it’s consistenly spelled that way in there. There’s literally not one verb in >300 pages spelled the British way.

          Idk, it’s not like I read papers like this regularly, but this is just not how these people talk/write from my experience. It’s too casual, too blatant, too personal, too engaged, not nearly technocratic enough. It sounds exactly like someone writing specifically to expose it. Maybe that’s just them talking internally, but I’m sceptical.