Dispatch: German-Russian Security Cooperation

Analyst Marko Papic looks at the strategies Berlin may use to facilitate greater security collaboration between Germany and Russia without the input of the United States.

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[Teranex]

@Mojo1982 He also said that Poland will become a superpower and that Russia and China will collapse lol.

[alphatotheomega7]

Germany and Russia getting in bed together and pushing the USA out of the picture? My god this is my best wet dream yet.

[theTerranEmpire3]

@unomnacajit111 I think our country is now a slave of the jews, not Russia.

[itachiitachi1946]

1 of basic rukles in usas defence is not letting 2 great power coming closer.in this case we have europe and russia getting closer to each other.i hope europe will get rid of americans on our soil.those usa troopsMUSTgo out of europe asap and leaveus alone stop causingus further troubles.russia and europe will benefit the most if they work together throwing to the garbage those annoying ''united states of america''whothey do nothing else that wars,killings,propaganda,creat­ing hate to nations etc

[mrdashes1]

@unomnacajit111 and you are a slave to the idiots

[Teranex]

@Futuregohan14 Well the population of the both entities is constantly growing, so we will see. Yet Friedman has also an interesting opinion on that topic, he says that USA will get stronger because it has "room to grow" (AKA lower population density) in comparison to Japan for example. Per his opinion it means that the nation with most potential is the one of which population has the greatest possibility to "grow". So that means Kazakhstan has more potential then for example Japan.

[Futuregohan14]

@Teranex Yeah, the USA has a mountain to climb but the EU is in a similar boat with significant debt(not quite as much, but still very concerning) and very low fertility.

We may start to see quite a few demographic changes on the horizon out in Europe. You could argue that we already are, actually.

[Teranex]

@Futuregohan14 Not to mention Friedman is also fully ignoring the EU, because the entity is simply not fitting into his fairy world of US global dominance, even trough the combined militaries and GDP are way higher then the one of the US. The USA reached its peak in 1980-2000 and its now in decline, especially because of its foren policy and its dept (to China).

[Teranex]

@Babaroga54 Its the most spoken (Per the number of native speakers) or atleast one of the most spoken languages (Per the number of total speakers) in the world. Its called Mandarin Chinese and its an older languange then English is.

[Teranex]

@Futuregohan14 Russia is facing a population decline and ageing already, but its only getting stronger. There also were no major disturbances in Russia and the trust in government remains one of the highest in the world as of current. Friedman claims Russia will start a war with the west and lose, which will cause its collapse (lol). While the chance of China collapsing is no bigger then the Chance of USA collapsing. Friedman is just wish-thinking in favor of the USA.

[Futuregohan14]

@Teranex Those collapses(or, at the very least, some serious negative impacts) could still happen/hit within the next 10-15 years. The Chinese bubble is of particular interest with graying(aging populace) starting to hit within the next decade or two. Russia has a similar issue. The population graying is going to seriously hit the Chinese economy in time and it is already hitting Russia, so it will be interesting to see how both respond.

It is going to be an interesting two decades coming up.