The Phrase Of The Week...

 ... from James Kunstler. 

Why the European members of NATO wanted to go along with this nickel-plated clusterfuck is an abiding puzzle of history now, like who exactly bumped off JFK in 1963. Germany, the Euro club’s biggest economy, stood by listlessly while America blew up its supply of affordable natgas (the Nord Stream pipelines), which was an act of war by us against Germany. Apparently, Olaf Scholz went to our CIA station in Berlin for a haircut one day and came out with a lobotomy, staring blankly through the whole affair like a Hinterwälder steer on the killing floor. Meanwhile, goodbye industrial economy! Nice knowing you. Looks like it’s back to the fourteenth century, living on rough black bread, sleeping with the cattle under your house for heat in winter, fighting jihadis inside your town walls. . . .

Indeed, looking at modern Germany one begins to wonder what level of sheer idiocy have been those people brought to. Here is the fresh example--this is Germany's "opposition", mind you. 

The German government should stop providing social benefits to Ukrainians, senior MP Thorsten Frei said on Sunday. He argued that the move would incentivize Ukrainian men to return to their home country and join the army amid the conflict with Russia. Frei, the deputy head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag, accused Ukrainians of fleeing to Germany in order to avoid mobilization at home. “While everything is at stake for Kiev in the face of the brutal Russian attack, many Ukrainians in this country who are able to defend [their homeland] are ducking out of it,” Frei told Funke Mediengruppe. “We should be honest: the benefits… to war refugees are providing completely wrong incentives.”

At this stage German way of thinking strikes one as that of the aliens from a wonderful movie Dark City in their quest to understand humans' soul. Obviously, due to their alien race not having one. But then again, show me a single German politician today who is not corrupt or with family blood which doesn't desire revenge on Russia. It is not surprising that it was former GDR's Leipzig which booed Rod Stewart and his pro-404 escapades, while Berlin was OK with it. It is, indeed, Dark City in Europe. I am not sure about XIV century in Germany, but it sure will be immediate post-WWII economic state (say early 1950s) for Germans with some toys like internet and smart phones added to ease the dawning realization of who and how brought this once thriving country to its knees.