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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about Germany. Lots of, lots of stuff going on. In Germany, we have the |
0:06.9 | vote to not send tourist missiles to Ukraine. We have the Olaf Schultz government doubling and |
0:15.6 | tripling and quadrupling down on Project Ukraine to send more money to Ukraine. Ola Schultz is absolutely adamant on sending $7 or $8 billion to Ukraine. |
0:27.2 | We have the farmers protest and strike that is shutting down the German economy. |
0:40.0 | And it's a strike that's spreading to other countries in in the EU, Romania. Romania is now having a strike that's going on, a protest |
0:48.4 | that is shaping up. And you had the German leadership at at davos kind of seems to me oblivious as to what's going |
0:59.2 | out or just doesn't care i guess adelaina said it best a year or a half ago where she was like |
1:04.2 | we don't care what our citizens think or say we're going to to do what we want to do because |
1:10.1 | we know best. |
1:11.5 | This is exactly right now. |
1:12.8 | She said, anyway, what's going on in Germany? |
1:16.4 | In a kind of sense, one sense is increasingly that in political terms, as far as the |
1:21.5 | coalition is concerned, the wheels are coming off. |
1:24.6 | I mean, the Germans, you know, the mass of the German public |
1:29.0 | are now turning strongly against the coalition. I mean, its support has fallen for 50, you know, |
1:35.0 | the aggregate support of all the, of all of the various parties that make up the coalition, |
1:41.1 | the social democrats, the Greens and the IFDA has fallen, |
1:46.5 | sorry, the free Democrats, has fallen from 52% at the time of the last parliamentary election |
1:56.7 | to 21% to 31% now. Now, that is an unprecedented collapse, |
2:03.8 | but even that doesn't convey the sense of the malaise in Germany. |
2:09.0 | So we've had an article in the Financial Times, |
2:13.2 | which I think I'm right in saying has a, you know, has, well, certainly it has a lot of presence |
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