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Originally Posted by dr. Gonzo
The only failure to achieve unity which bothers me is the failure of Europe to tell the States where to go with their corporate-controlled NATO and worldwide ambitions to plant rockets and military bases everywhere. What's the problem with EU?
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Money / unity / national interests / things we'll heard about in 50 years from now
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Originally Posted by dr. Gonzo
It's European Union, mind you, not the union of mindless US supporters. Why do you think it's in Czech interests to go into tension with Russia and possibly with all manner of islamists - just for being nice to the States? Some people just need to realize the world does not revolve around them.
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OSN wouldn't exist without being financed by the US, NATO would have about half of it's power without US - it's actually very simple maths
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Originally Posted by dr. Gonzo
There was a nice sticker in Prague metro about this thing, with a timeline of Czech history - Soviet soldiers left, US soldiers are coming. Same shit under a different flag. Smaller countries will always have to balance between the superpowers, but it is surely best to stay out of this hate-filled game all together.
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Nah, they forgot they lost millions / probably billions of dollars annually in mutual business on burning bridges with the former RVHP countries, former RVHP countries didn't forget.
So now they don't have too much of a choice, they always got fucked in the ass (as for Czech) and they always will.
Obviously, from ideological reasons, you can't publicize anything that would be against the current - pseudo capitalism (more like corporate socialism with capitalistic elements here), so they will always paint the history strictly black and the presence to be gold.
Just for an illustration:
What's not spoken about, is that the real estate, energies, gas etc. mob in cooperation with the government made the prices so expensive these days,
that if you would like to live like a human on your own, single (say you want a rented flat, you want electricity, warm water and you make an AVERAGE salary) you would spend more than 50 pct. of the AVERAGE salary just as a fixed cost to have this, and you haven't eaten yet.
In fact - not even in the times of communism, when everyone had a flat or a house, a cottage, a car, free education, free healthcare and worked strictly 9-5 without having to be overly productive, was it at this level.