PS: I'm glad to hear you're feeling well, Mr. Kief. We are glad to have the house down to 80!, OK, I mean, 27 or so. A/C broke a few years back, and I haven't replaced the central unit for reasons. I'll put 2 window units up this time.

I'm glad to learn from both of you some insider German politics.

Alarmist, was the conversation with your German colleague in private, or do you think he had to act this way about the AfD for career reasons?

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"but then Mr. Merz is no doubt still up to his neck in Blacrock equity and therefore dedicated more than he might like to the EU and Ukraine projects."
Black Rock told the public that Mr. merz, now Chancellor of Germany, 1)has beend working for the company one day a week for a cpouple of years 2) that he was not of much use 3) and got paid in the low six digits for his efforts - which sounded like a public knock-out of Merz - which might be no wonder bc. Black Rock has made a U-turn energy-wise and went full frontal against renewables and the like? Could this be the reason for this very unkind Balck-Rock act against Merz?

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Yes, thx. for asking - Greetings back to Sedan Alarmist! - - - -it is getting better with me . . . thx. to the heavens above!

Also - we just have a perfect summer-rain - - - bringing temps down from 32 to a very pleasant 20. Our vegetables etc. are growing fast these days!

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Hi Dieter. I had a meeting with a German colleague last week, and while we small-talked about things like sports and politics, he literally lamented that it was sad that there was no practical alternative to the CDU and SPD, so I said, “Hast du die AfD vergessen?,” to which he rolled his eyes and practically suggested Alice Weidel would be the second coming of the Mustache Guy.

It’s kind of funny watching the Uniparty twist itself in knots to maintain the firewall when the most savvy move Mr. Merz could make would be, as Bismarck once quipped, to steal AfD’s thunder and do a coalition with them, but then Mr. Merz is no doubt still up to his neck in Blacrock equity and therefore dedicated more than he might like to the EU and Ukraine projects.

BTW, Martin Armstrong today has a nice set of 20 Reasons Russia might want to invade the EU, with #1 being

“To acquire Germany’s energy policy expertise and finally learn how to shut down functioning nuclear plants while importing expensive energy from everyone else.”

RTWT

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-real-reason-russia-would-invade-europe/

Schöne Grüße aus Sedan. Geht es dir in letzter Zeit besser?

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Yes, Alarmist - - Europe is deeply confused.
The latest fad is to look for tendencies esp. in the germanic Nation-states that - - - way back in the past - - - paved the way for Hitler.

So - - being anti-nation and anti-border and being hospitable under any circumstances to everybody esp. from Africa - means to be - democratic.

PS: You wouldn't have to sink them all. (Did you explain that to them?) One boat sunk, with the rest coming hard about, wouldn't even make up for a few months worth of violent crimes upon Europeans done by these invaders.

Great point in the 2nd paragraph.

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You should see the looks I get from Euroweenies when I suggest sinking the boats might actually solve the problem.

Funny how everyone in Europe is so worried about a suppositional Russian invasion, to the point of even wanting to re-arm the Germans, but so afraid of being called a racist to stop an actual invasion in progress.

Sad 😞

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