Chris is right, they are in trouble. But I think that happened when they joined the EU. Germany was always going to call the shots since they bring the most to the table economically by far.
I think the break for autonomy and identity preservation is noble and the right choice. But they are really going to struggle, and I hope they don’t end up being a gigantic welfare project for us.
Interestingly, I could see us helping them out by helping out with their military down the road to free up money for them given our close ties, but there is NO way that they would accept that at this point, and I’m not sure they trust us THAT much.
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