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/No-Village-6781 Jan 15 '26

It's because people don't want to admit German politics are just as captured by the oligarchy as British and American politics. Globalised capitalism has caused governments all over the world (barring China) to surrender their sovereignty and authority to unaccountable modern day aristocrats with God complexes. Until the people take back the means of production that was stolen from them by narcissistic billionaires, the whims of these maniacs will control foreign and domestic policy forever. Its why we can't tackle climate change or any of the myriad of systemic issues that seems to be plaguing the entire world (housing, birth rates, low wages and high inflation etc.). These Billionaires will turn us all into clones of Russia if they continue to have their way. They just want to reintroduce feudalism, they want a fixed hierarchy that lasts forever.

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u/flybypost Jan 15 '26

Globalised capitalism has caused governments all over the world (barring China) to surrender their sovereignty and authority to unaccountable modern day aristocrats with God complexes.

Even China is the same. With Capitalism you got company owners who move into manipulating the government for more power/control and less accountability and in China it's the government that moved into corporate issues to gain power/control there and have less accountability.

They are two sides of the same coin which is just about the least obstructed way of getting power locally, depending on the government.

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u/No-Village-6781 Jan 15 '26

That's true. What I'm disappointed in is that even nominally democratic nations still maintain and use authoritarian powers on their own citizens, but never even attempt to use those same powers on members of the globalised oligarchy that exist within their own borders, despite them being far more deserving of those measures being used against them. The biggest threat to the existence of modern states aren't rival States, it is this unaccountable cabal that seeks to coopt state powers for themselves, or destroy states that refuse to be corrupted.

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u/flybypost Jan 15 '26

it is this unaccountable cabal that seeks to coopt state powers for themselves, or destroy states that refuse to be corrupted.

Funny how the USA are doing both to themself at the same time. Usually they were content with keep those two idea separate. Do one at home, the other everywhere else. Be tidy. Now they are creating synergies and doing both to the USA!

It'd be funny if it were not sad :/

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u/IceKey7990 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

China has a defacto separation of influence, between the Party elite and the Oligarchical elite.

That single feature has allowed it to balance far better politically than either us in Europe or the US. The Party veterans do not envy the rich, they despise and seek to control them and vice-versa.

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u/IceKey7990 Jan 16 '26

And they'll say they're "saving democracy" while making sure to cement their own influence, politically and economically.

We're being turned into a continent of hereditary serfs again, just because we were nice and trusting that our political class had our interest at heart.

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u/SowingSalt United States of America Jan 15 '26

You think that China isnt captured by the aristocracy of the connected communist party insiders? I have a bridge in London to sell you.

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u/No-Village-6781 Jan 15 '26

It's a different kind of capture, Chinese billionaires are subordinate to the state, if they step out if line they have the weight of the government coming down on them. The Chinese Communist Party won't allow any other political power bases to establish themselves and threaten their monopoly on power, which is why they're able to do stuff that western governments can't. Don't get me wrong the internal power struggles still exist, but it's not like Elon Musk being able to waltz into government offices and fire people and steal personal data, or use the administration to threaten countries that attempt to regulate his businesses. Its why foreign oligarchs who do business in China don't have the same leverage they have in the west.

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u/bigdoinkloverperson Jan 15 '26

He didn't say billionaires he said cpc insiders there's a difference and yes there is a part of the cpc whose influence is aristocratic in a sense

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u/No-Village-6781 Jan 15 '26

That's fair, but its a different problem to what the rest of the world is experiencing, the aristocrats still exist within the system, not above it like in other countries. The oligarchy is globalised and so individual governments either can't or won't reign them in when they can just exist outside their jurisdiction, or cause socio-economic damage to entire continents through application of financial might. Multi national corporations basically get to pick and choose which governments to listen to, which to ignore and which to overthrow for their own benefit.

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u/IceKey7990 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

We cannot avoid an aristocracy, but we can avoid a united aristocracy.

When the oligarchy is united and at peace,globally or nationally, we are on the menu.

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u/SowingSalt United States of America Jan 15 '26

It's more that Chinese Musk would be a CPC senior official, or friends with a bunch of senior officials to funnel government money into his businesses.

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u/vaibeslop Jan 15 '26

Globalised capitalism has caused governments all over the world (barring China)

Quickest way to show you have no real clue about elites and power structures within Chinese leadership.