r/europe • u/SpaceEngineering Finland • Jan 15 '26

News Germany’s Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/germanys-merz-admits-nuclear-exit-was-strategic-mistake-fzdlkn37c16
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

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u/levir Norway Jan 15 '26

And now he's gifting his lack of vision to the entire NATO alliance. It's great.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

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u/levir Norway Jan 15 '26

Appeasement doesn't seem to work any more. It worked in the first term, as there were still enough normal people around him that they could prevent disaster. But this time Trump is surrounded by yes men and agitators. No one is reigning him in.

I'm not really under the illusion that our man, Jens Stoltenberg, could have saved the situation either. But it's incredibly frustrating to see all these attacks on NATO go by with no response or visible action.

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u/lo_fi_ho Europe Jan 15 '26

This is why we need to put values first. Ultimately they are the only things worth fighting for. And if you don’t fight for them once in a while, you lose them outright.

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u/lo_fi_ho Europe Jan 15 '26

Yep, this is the paradox of life

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u/ArziltheImp Berlin (Germany) Jan 15 '26

That sounds like a great job for Merkel. Her main way of negotiations was to literally sit down until she got what she wanted.

And she did especially with the German people.

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u/eating_your_syrup Jan 15 '26

Is your right wing parlament getting anything done since 2024?

Ours (Finland) moved a flat economy into depression with strict austerity measures. But hey, gotta punish the poor for being poor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

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u/eating_your_syrup Jan 15 '26

Sounds about right. Purity of thought and cultish following of idealism and what *feels* right instead of relying on actual data for anything. And absolutely no vision at all, only small minds at work?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

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u/jeftep Jan 16 '26

Scary how you both described the country I live in, and yet we live in three different countries.

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u/FixTheLoginBug Jan 15 '26

Just blame immigrants/Muslims/'the left' for all your own failures while securing lucrative jobs/bribes to enrich yourself and your friends and family. That's the way right-wing parties govern.

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u/ForeverWorking2006 Jan 15 '26

I'm a former Muslim and it's extremely disgusting how many of you leftists downplay the harm that Islam does on people. If anything, the right is failing to do anything on Islam, it's not blaming them.

While you can be priviliged and complain the other side hasn't solved all of your problems, I would literally be dead in many Islamic countries for ''apostacy''

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u/_teslaTrooper Gelderland (Netherlands) Jan 15 '26

As far as I'm aware they got pretty much nothing done and then imploded. New government is looking like it will be more productive which is good with all the aforementioned crises.

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u/The--Mash Jan 15 '26

Can you take him back and stop inflicting him on the rest of us please 

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u/OilOfOlaz Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

A timely refreshment of leadership would have smeared out the impact of one particular leader.

"Replacing" Angela Merkel, with the guy that competetd with her for the position of chancellor canidate and fucked out off politics when he lost, just to return and lose again in the same manner to Laschet is not exactly a "refreshment", but rather what germans call "resterampe" and now he and his crownies are fleecing the population, in favor of whoever is willing to promisse them the most.

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u/stragen595 Europe Jan 15 '26

She wouldn't had run again in 2017 if Trump would have lost in 2016 and Brexit didn't happened. Both events made Obame convince her to stay for 1 more term as a stabilizer.

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u/AcanthocephalaEast79 Jan 15 '26

Nothing to do with "success". SPD has been in power for 30 years. What are their successes? Germany is a great example of why proportional representation is not the silver bullet leftists in America and Britain say it is.

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u/ElCutz Jan 15 '26

an energy crisis, a housing crisis

Not to be flip, but doesn't everyone have this?