I believe that Ukraine should be part of Russia and that we should have never let them leave our control like they were during the reign of the Soviet Union.
Things were a lot nicer when Russia controlled east Germany and comrade and ex-KGB agent Putin has the best interests of Russia.
April fools
Unironically, yes.
The unified Germany is tyrannizing the rest of Europe.
Like a French statesman once said: I love Germany. I love it so much that I think there should be three Germanies, maybe four.
I have a much better solution and even a reference point in history for Germany.
hint: It's not the Soviets.
Bonaparte?
I must be honest, that's a clever one, you got a chuckle out of me.
Pre-decline imperial germany?
There used to be about 200 and they still ran everything.
Not true! Prussia and Austria were certainly powers to be reckoned with, but nothing like Germany is today. German unification and industrialization really did a number on the European continent.
I was referring to the HRE
I thought so, so that's Austria. Because the HRE was very decentralized (like Voltaire used to exaggerate, neither holy, Roman nor an empire) and the Emperor had very little power. In fact, the French kings continually made alliances with the Rhineland princes in order to fight the Emperor.
My point is that it was very decentralized. It was a feudal throwback amidst the absolute monarchies of Renaissance Europe. Each German vassal had enormous power over his own fiefdom, and virtually all of them were still industrial powerhouses with a rich merchant class. More than a hundred different Germanies, and they were still the greatest power in Europe.
They weren't though. I'm not sure how you define 'greatest power', but by any definition, they won't be. Perhaps economic - the same way all of Europe economically outweighs the US, for all the zero good that it does us.
France was the greatest power in Europe, which is why the UK was constantly arranging balancing coalitions against them. So Germany on itself was not able to mobilize as much power as the more centralize 'absolute monarchies' (where, by the way, the state had much less power over people than the centralized states created by the French Revolution).
I read someone today saying it would have been better for Germany to reunite under East Germany than the other way around.
Probably because then it would not even have happened.
Well, the current regime is turning all of Germany into Soviet East Germany.
Omnipresent state propaganda, the Stasi and planned economy are already back and they're working hard to criminalize any opposition.
where's the joke?