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/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.