Today, nosotros visited The Stork Nest, the luxurious farm together with rural conference center owned past times our billionaire finance government minister Mr Andrej Babiš. Elegant.
The European stock markets had a terrible day. Super Mario Draghi said something pessimistic, maybe also inwards human relationship with Brexit. Independently, at that topographic point take hold been intense German-British interactions inwards the media. Take e.g.
German finance government minister threatens to BLOCK Great Britain from the unmarried marketplace position if province votes for Brexit... but magazine pleads for us to stayin the Daily Mail. I am lamentable but Wolfgang Schäuble is either immature – if he doesn't fully understand the consequences of his blackmail – or he is downright evil, destructive, together with non-democratic.
Let me emphasize that Wolfgang Schäuble isn't an European Union dictator – non fifty-fifty to the extent to which Adolf Hitler was one. In particular, Schäuble doesn't determine whether the U.K. volition live able to remain inwards the European costless marketplace position afterwards the hypothetical Brexit.
Even inwards Germany, at that topographic point are lots of people aside from Herr Schäuble who volition influence the decision. And thus at that topographic point are nearly 400 ane one m thousand European Union citizens exterior Germany, with their politicians, who volition contribute to such decisions, too. I don't believe that the German linguistic communication companies – importers together with exporters – volition truly live willing to harm the merchandise relationships. I don't believe that Mercedes together with BMW wishing to "punish" the British voters together with halt exporting the cars to the U.K.
My opinions are fifty-fifty clearer when nosotros recollect nearly other European Union countries that are much less brainwashed past times the fanatical Euronaive ideology than Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is. For Czechia, the merchandise with the U.K. isn't equally good of import but I am silent sure that fifty-fifty afterwards the Leave vote, almost everyone volition wishing to hold the merchandise relationships equally similar to the status quo equally possible. After all, most of the Czech citizens understand the reasons the British may take hold to leave of absence real well. The set out of Czechs who would passionately wishing to punish the U.K. for the Leave vote volition live basically zero. To a lesser extent, it's truthful inwards most other countries of the EU, too.
Wolfgang Schäuble decided to plow himself into the poster man child of the European Union bullies. "You take hold to live obedient to the EU, otherwise you lot volition live kaput", he threatens (and others threaten) everyone. But permit me emphasize. The Brexit vote only does not imply that the relationships betwixt the citizens together with companies across the Channel take hold to deteriorate. If Wolfgang Schäuble volition cripple the merchandise betwixt the U.K. together with the residuum of the EU, it volition the Schäuble's malicious sin, non some unavoidable outcome of the Brexit itself. Wolfgang Schäuble, together with non the British voters, volition acquire an evil pile of Šajze that should meliorate live cleaned if the Britons together with Europeans volition wishing to restore their prosperity.
I am sure that most people inwards Western Europe – I hateful the countries that take hold never lived nether the total mightiness of a communist political party – believe that they must live wiser than e.g. us inwards Czech Republic together with Slovakia. They're wealthier thus they assume that they must live wiser, too. But it's non necessarily thus (the wealth gap was caused past times real unlike things than the differences inwards the introduce wisdom with observe to the EU) together with Schäuble's blackmail is some other slice of evidence that it is non so. Because I hear what the likes of Herr Schäuble say, I experience it is my duty to human activity equally the adult inwards the room, scream at Herr Schäuble, together with brand this naughty man child hear to what needs to live said.
You know, when nosotros removed the communists' total mightiness inwards the Velvet Revolution, at that topographic point was of a precipitous much to a greater extent than room for people to limited their feelings nearly everything. This included the natural Slovak patriotism that was generally suppressed past times the Czechoslovak communist machinery. Suddenly, nosotros saw that quite some percent of the Slovaks were truly proud nearly their softcore clerofascist Slovak State during the Second World War. And they wanted to live independent inwards this together with that together with to live to a greater extent than visible together with they believed to live unlike from Czechs.
If nosotros supply to mid 1992, earlier the Velvet Divorce was negotiated, most Czechs just didn't take hold whatsoever existent empathy for those Slovak sentiments. Yes, indeed, nosotros generally used the adjectives "Czech" together with "Czechoslovak" equally synonyms together with nosotros in all probability thought that it was natural for Slovaks to consider "Czechoslovak" together with "Slovak" to live basically synonyms, too. ;-) We thought that only a span of rural bumpkins, shepherds, together with simpletons could wishing an independent Slovakia. We were confident that it would live light-headed to course of report the country, brand "ourselves" (even) smaller, together with thus on.
Just to live sure. Dear British readers should understand that they're the Slovaks inwards this analogy spell the German linguistic communication readers should live the Czechs. Note that according to the traffic maps, 45% of TRF readers are American, 8% are British, together with 7% are German linguistic communication – iii top countries. This top listing – with Canada, France, Czech Republic at the next spots – has been constant for years.
Many TV programs told us nearly the Great Civil War inwards Czechoslovakia that would get if some separation procedure began together with all materials similar that. Václav Havel considered the dissolution of Czechoslovakia unacceptable together with resigned inwards mid 1992 equally the Czechoslovak president to protestation the divorce – earlier he was restored equally the Czech president inwards Jan 1993. ;-)
Some Czech politicians – together with I unremarkably similar to cite the slow mathematician (set theorist) Petr Vopěnka, a old Czech didactics government minister – were ahead of others together with were promoting the dissolution of Czechoslovakia good earlier details were ready. They argued it was meliorate to course of report the ways. Also, the subsidies for Slovakia could halt together with Czechs could live meliorate off, together with thus on. Vopěnka was odd because he had some anti-Slovak emotions (very rare with Czechs inwards 1992; inwards some sense, Vopěnka was a mirror of the Slovak nationalists) but he was also highly rational.
So at every moment, at that topographic point was some "school of thought" inwards Czech Republic that was imagining how to adjust the life good afterwards the separation of Slovakia. And afterwards the elections inwards mid 1992 – the results were dramatically unlike inwards Czech Republic (right-wing Klaus won) together with Slovakia (left-wing populist Mečiar won) – all these plans had to live made real specific. It was mainly Klaus who masterminded the algorithms to split all the things thus that things worked basically flawlessly, fifty-fifty when the currency was split into 2 some 6 weeks afterwards the dissolution of countries on Jan 1st, 1993.
There are lots of technical principles behind the Velvet Divorce that people responsible for similar situations should larn lessons from – together with I am sure that top U.K. together with European Union politicians should await into this history because it may live helpful if Brexit wins. When it came to assets, at that topographic point was the uncomplicated sketch: seek to observe out naturally whether some assets are inwards Czech Republic or Slovakia (or take hold already been assigned to the land states that existed inside the federal state). If that's possible together with natural, the novel province volition acquire it. If things are shared (e.g. cash etc.), they volition live divided past times a fixed ratio, 2-to-1 inwards our Czecho-Slovak case. The Velvet Divorce is a large plenty trial together with ane only has to live generous because the whining of the husband is ane of the showtime things that the wiser, Czech spouse, only wants to acquire rid of. And when the husband is acting reasonably equally well, it's only meliorate for both.
There was clearly something to a greater extent than of import than the technical details together with fifty-fifty the wide technical principles: the practiced will. The top politicians only wanted the events to function well. It's non just because they were saints. The top politicians who were masterminding the dissolution (mainly Klaus together with Mečiar) were destined to acquire the leading politicians inwards the 2 novel countries. So they just naturally didn't wishing the things to live screwed because they would acre live responsible for the consequences.
I wishing to say that whether or non all the players realize that, just the same rules apply inwards the representative of the Brexit. Like inwards the representative of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the separation would live generally driven past times ane side, the U.K. (new Slovaks) inwards this case. But it doesn't matter. Just similar the Slovaks clearly had the right to pick out politicians who wanted to gradually weaken the federal structures of Czechoslovakia and/or declare the outright independence (Slovak National Party), the Britons clearly take hold the same right.
Sometime past times autumn 1992, most Czechs understood that Slovaks didn't take hold to live consummate idiots to dislike the tight federal Czechoslovak province that most Czechs preferred. After all, many people know what it way to live a younger blood brother (or a boy of a famous or authoritative father) together with the Slovak separatist dreams weren't infinitely unlike from our ain wishing to live separated from Austro-Hungarian Empire inwards 1918, or from the Third Reich during the Second World War. So Czechs realized that nosotros were thrown into unlike weather condition – nosotros had some unlike identity – but given the specific Slovak conditions, at that topographic point were legitimate reasons why Slovaks wanted what they wanted. And nosotros didn't wishing an excessively confusing confederacy with an unclear status, thus it was agreed that the total divorce may function real well, too.
The actual politicians were much to a greater extent than charismatic than the actors. But this dramatic "TV reconstruction" video shows a 3-minute central betwixt Klaus together with Mečiar that decided nearly the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Klaus outlined the options clearly. Czechs didn't wishing whatsoever confederacy, Slovaks didn't wishing a tight federal state. Both parties' membership meant that at that topographic point was back upward for a continuing federation inwards both parties. Will you lot bring together the federal government? No, it won't live possible, Mečiar answered, together with afterwards a few Klaus' suggestive questions whether Slovaks wanted to proceed to live parasites, the negotiations apace switched to how the dissolution would live performed. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 2nd league Slovak politico got offended past times the parasitic suggestions but Mečiar clearly understood the query real good together with answered: "We wishing to alive from our ain money." Obviously, at that topographic point were some similarities inwards Klaus' together with Mečiar's personalities – which includes straight, macho ways to depict the problems – together with they were extremely helpful inwards providing the divorce with the velvet.
It's a moral duty for German linguistic communication politicians together with other Germans – something that may determine nearly the atmosphere together with prosperity on the European continent plus the British islands inwards the futurity – to realize just the same thing nearly the Britons.
Dear Herr Schäuble, it only doesn't affair whether you lot concur with the UKIP together with its soulmates. They take hold the unquestionable right to course of report themselves from the EU. We don't know the final result together with it's obvious at this advanced phase (especially because of the too-close-to-call surveys) that a competent politico or director etc. only has to live ready for both results now. Even the European Union laws depict this right of the Britons inwards quite some item – inwards fact, much to a greater extent than item than whatsoever Czechoslovak constabulary has ever talked nearly the dissolution of the province (I recollect it never has!). So they clearly take hold the right to secede from the European Union.
If they vote Leave, you lot volition in all probability proceed to live an of import politico inwards Germany, Herr Schäuble. And that's why you lot only don't wishing to badly harm the German linguistic communication economic scheme or get a crazy merchandise state of war against the U.K. that volition harm everyone. Your natural, rational task volition live completely analogous to the tasks that the Czech together with Slovak politicians faced inwards the 2 novel countries created inwards 1993. You only demand to create things right given the boundary weather condition you lot can't dictate. Brexit (if it is approved) volition live a boundary status – a purpose of the Definition of the job you lot volition live supposed to solve.
In fact, you lot should non only know that you lot volition seek to protect all the "clearly mutually beneficial" links betwixt the U.K. together with the relaxation of the EU. You should acknowledge that you lot know that, people should know that you lot know that, together with they should live allowed to naturally assume that they know that you lot volition comport rationally afterwards Brexit. That's why you lot only can't blackmail Britain. If you lot blackmail Britain, it way that you lot wishing to comport equally a destructive, economy-busting saboteur afterwards Brexit. If that's so, you lot should live meliorate removed or assassinated (whichever method is to a greater extent than compatible with the German linguistic communication law) equally before long equally possible because everyone knows that you are a fourth dimension bomb waiting to detonate the German linguistic communication economic scheme together with others.
Praising Britons
Schäuble together with others work the carrots together with sticks. So spell the Britons hear the absurd threats that they won't live allowed to create draw organization with the relaxation of Europe easily, they are also existence praised. Don't the Britons realize how much they take hold contributed to Europe? To fulfill the European Union sex quotas, James Bond together with Twiggy's haircut are mentioned equally great contributions that the U.K. has done for Europe. James Bond is such a great European, isn't he? Why don't the Britons meet it, the German linguistic communication newspapers ask?
You gotta live kidding me.
First, I believe that the Britons know that they are a great land together with they don't demand a Bremain ideologue to tell them so. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Brexit sympathizer such equally your humble correspondent is to a greater extent than than enough. In the era of the political correctness together with 60+ years afterwards the decolonialization of much of the world, it may live pop to dismiss the Britons.
But it's obvious that Britons take hold made primal contributions to the Western civilisation – fifty-fifty if their most golden era is already a history (the most golden Czech era could take hold taken house inwards the mid 14th century thus don't cry).
The the States (and acre Canada, Australia, together with others) are just particular projects of the U.K. – 45% of the TRF readers who reside inwards the the States volition sure as shooting forgive me together with if they won't, they can't create much, anyway. ;-) The 1215 Magna Carta was the ground of enlightened monarchies that has made the liberty together with commonwealth possible. Capitalism was born inwards the Netherlands together with Britain. Science together with applied scientific discipline were basically British enterprises for several centuries – permit me telephone telephone it the era betwixt Isaac Newton together with James Clerk Maxwell. This era was arguably followed past times the German linguistic communication era betwixt Ludwig Boltzmann together with Werner Heisenberg (I had to pick some names approximately, I don't claim that this is the only way to define the intervals). Only afterwards the Second World War, scientific discipline together with applied scientific discipline truly entered the U.S.-led epoch.
Was James Bond a great European Union citizen? That's non how I understood whatsoever of the movies. He has e'er been a loyal retainer of the British queen together with the province she leads. His province may take hold joined the European Union but it doesn't hateful that his province together with his MI6 was identical to the average of the European Union countries together with institutions inwards them. I haven't noticed that James Bond has started to serve Jean-Claude Juncker yet. I am afraid that this transition would live deadly for the series.
For me, James Bond is silent primarily an Anglo-Saxon, non European, hero. The life inwards the U.K. is real similar together with became fifty-fifty to a greater extent than similar to the life inwards the continental Western Europe but it's non the same together with some underlying, historically given features arrive closer to America than Europe. If you lot collect natural arguments for the U.K. to live inwards the EU, most of these arguments volition call for that the the States should live inwards the EU, too. I don't wishing to pass hours with the comparative literature of James Bond together with the European Union because it's a light-headed exercise.
The dot that it is light-headed is truly my original point. There only isn't whatsoever sensible way to turn James Bond or Twiggy into great arguments inwards favor of Bremain. Is the German linguistic communication media don't realize this point, they take hold acquire completely irrational. Twiggy together with James Bond may real good live additional reasons for the U.K. to leave of absence the European Union. They remind us that the U.K. did good earlier the European Union together with it may create good afterwards the European Union (or at to the lowest degree afterwards their European Union membership). Well, I recollect that at that topographic point be much to a greater extent than of import reasons, however, together with the Brexit get has explained them rather nicely. For example, Nigel Farage did a great task inwards the "contest of 2 monologues" several days agone (the Yes guy was David Cameron).
So please, Herr Schäuble together with others, seek to live at to the lowest degree equally constructive equally the Czechs were inwards 1992 when Slovaks made it clear that they experience unlike nearly the federal state. You are non the manful somebody monarch of the British Islands – fifty-fifty Adolf Hitler has failed to conquer the islands around 1940 – thus you lot should acknowledge that at that topographic point are sure facts you lot only cannot determine. You must adapt to them together with you lot should create thus inwards the optimum way.
It may live appealing for you lot to acquire a great who blackmails because you lot may recollect that such a blackmail volition create great things for the unity of the European Union that may live something you lot aid about. But it won't. Blackmail is bad together with the Britons but also other Europeans such equally the Czechs (and 25 other European Union countries aside from these three) are watching. The Britons may vote Brexit despite the blackmail together with fifty-fifty if the blackmail helped to brand them pick out Bremain, the blackmail volition take hold bad consequences for the European Union that may live worse than the benefits. Increasingly many people volition unavoidably recollect that the European Union is running out of command together with is de facto controlled past times a bunch of fanatics who are ready to destroy the European economies together with other things inwards the call of their crackpot delusions nearly the great European unity. The hundreds of millions of people who are noticing that you lot are turning into an Adolf-Hitler-style obsessed unifier may function harder against the European Union sooner than you lot think.
If the Britons and/or other nations wishing to leave, this is some dynamics you lot cannot change. You must adapt to it.
I've mentioned the twelvemonth 1940 together with the German linguistic communication inability to occupy the British islands. It may live funny to remind the honey readers nearly the events hither inwards the Czech lands at the same time. You know, at that topographic point were numerous funny self-confident German linguistic communication nutcases who were running all over Czechoslovakia together with they claimed that Czechoslovakia had been destroyed together with the Czech lands were incorporated into the so-called Third Reich equally the "protectorate". So these guys thought that Berlin decides nearly everything. Indeed, millions of Czechs institute this game cute plenty together with tens of thousands who loudly didn't were executed (the set out doesn't include 300,000 Czechoslovak Jews murdered inwards the Holocaust).
Meanwhile, the actual regime of Czechoslovakia continued to function inwards London. It has worked with the likes of James Bond together with executed ane of the top guys, the blonde brute acting protector Reinhard Heydrich inwards 1942 (a primal co-father of the Holocaust, with other things). In 1945, the nutcases were stopped entirely.
What the Germans should translate equally a large alarm is that the German linguistic communication together with British opinions nearly these European questions seem to live real similar to the opinions of the 2 countries inwards 1940 again. Once again, the German linguistic communication politicians are those who believe that they take hold the right to overrule other European nations' opinions nearly their house inwards Europe or their independence together with realize their projection of a unified Europe according to a German linguistic communication template. Once again, it's only the "German" opinions that affair (I've previously mentioned that I don't believe that the "destroy the trade" opinions are shared past times the German linguistic communication manufacture etc.) together with those who take hold unlike opinions must live neutralized.
You may say or recollect that the European matrimony is a production of your German linguistic communication sense of guilt, an elbow grease to brand Nazism impossible forever, together with thus on. But when ane truly looks at the product, the German-led European Union, it looks real similar to the so-called Third Reich. The Internet volition truly leave of absence you lot uncertain whether the Fourth Reich way the contemporary Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany or the whole European Union. Well, it's in all probability meant to include the territory of the whole European Union but only the ideas that are considered "mainstream" with top German linguistic communication politicians (outside AfD). Isn't it troubling?
In a novel curt text They Finally Said It Loudly, Czech ex-president Václav Klaus is shocked nearly a May 30th spoken communication past times Michael Roth, a German linguistic communication deputy government minister for Europe, inwards Berlin. In the lastly section, "The Role of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany inwards Europe Has To Be Redefined", Roth says candidly together with innocently that "whether nosotros wishing it or not", "Germany – the largest province – has the role of the Führer of the European Union", "a role nosotros take hold to embrace". Wow.
Sorry, German linguistic communication comrades, but whether you lot recollect that you're to a greater extent than politically right than the German linguistic communication leaders of Europe around 1940, what you're doing together with how you're treating the interests together with opinions of other nations is basically identical to what your ancestors did around 1940. And it's rather probable that if you lot truly proceed with this unacceptable mental attitude towards other nations, the reactions volition live similar together with at that topographic point may live a 2nd analogous to May 1945, too. Maybe afterwards you lot lose some other ground state of war that you lot aid to spark, others may say "three was already enough" together with a novel solution without an economical miracle may live chosen instead. For the particular Roth crank: You only cannot live a "leader" inwards the sense that you lot could realize most of your opinions. Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is the largest European Union province but it's silent a little minority of the EU, equally good (below 20% – a percent comparable to what AfD has inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany now). In whatsoever scheme that is at to the lowest degree marginally democratic, it is absolutely fallacious to imagine that the German linguistic communication view is "almost the same thing" equally the bulk opinion.
Isn't it meliorate to acquire sensible together with constructive? If together with when most of the British voters pick out Leave, it volition acquire a boundary status for the British together with European politicians together with their destination volition live to observe the best setup for everyone – particularly for the citizens whom the politicians stand upward for – given the novel boundary conditions. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia shows that the post-dissolution scheme may live to a greater extent than efficient together with to a greater extent than friendly than the unified one. The damn younger blood brother just tin alive past times himself together with should live allowed to create so. Can the Europeans create it afterwards Brexit? Yes, nosotros can.
If some politicians don't want the post-Brexit Europe together with post-Brexit Great Britain to live prosperous together with friendly, they're junk politicians who deserve to live driven to the dumping ground of the history equally before long equally possible, Herr Schäuble.
And that's the memo.
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