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American Bases To Be Moved From Germany To Eastern Europe
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 7/10/2006
Invited by a grateful United States, the Czech Republic sent in February 2003 a representative to meet with Iraqi opposition in Kurdish north Iraq. The country was one of the eight signatories on a letter, co-signed by Britain, Italy, Spain and the two other European Union central European candidate-members, Poland and Hungary, in support of US policy in the Gulf.
According to The Observer and the New York Times, American troops in Germany - and the billions of dollars in goods and services they consume locally - will be moved further east to the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland and the Baltic states. This shift may have come regardless of the German "betrayal". The Pentagon has long been contemplating the futility of stationing tens of thousands of soldiers in the world's most peaceful and pacifistic country.
The letter is a slap in the face of Germany, a member of the "Axis of Peace", together with France and Belgium and the champion of EU enlargement to the east. Its own economic difficulties aside, Germany is the region's largest foreign investor and trading partner. Why the curious rebuff by its ostensible protégés?
The Czech Republic encapsulates many of the economic and political trends in the erstwhile communist swathe of Europe.
The country's economic performance still appears impressive. Figures released at the beginning of 2003 revealed a surge of 6.6 percent in industrial production, to yield an annual increase of 4.8 percent. Retail sales, though way below expectations, were still up 2.7 percent in 2002. The Czech National Bank (CNB) upgraded its gross domestic product growth forecast on Jan 30, 2003 to 2.2-3.5 percent.
But the country is in the throes of a deflationary cycle. The producer price index was down 0.8 percent in 2002. Year on year, it decreased by 0.4 percent in January 2003. Export prices are down 6.7 percent, though import prices fell by even more thus improving the country's terms of trade.
The Czech koruna is unhealthily overvalued against the euro thus jeopardizing any export-led recovery. The CNB was forced to intervene in the foreign exchange market and buy in excess of 2 billion euros in 2002 - four times the amount it did in 2001. It also cut its interest rates in January 2003 to their nadir since independence. This did little to dent the country's burgeoning current account deficit, now at over 5 percent of GDP.
Unemployment in January 2003 broke through the psychologically crucial barrier of 10 percent of the workforce. More than 540,000 bread earners (in a country of 10 million inhabitants) are out of a job. In some regions every fifth laborer is laid off. There are more than 13 - and in the worst hit parts, more than 100 - applicants per every position open.
Additionally, the country is bracing itself for another bout of floods, more devastating than 2001's and the ones in 1997. Each of the previous inundations caused in excess of $2 billion in damages. The government's budget is already strained to a breaking point with a projected deficit of 6.3 percent in 2003, stabilizing at between 4 and 6.6 percent in 2006. The situation hasn't been this dire since the toppling of communism in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
Ironically, these bad tidings are mostly the inevitable outcomes of much delayed reforms, notably privatization. Four fifths of the country's economy is alleged to be in private hands - a rate similar to the free markets of Estonia, Slovakia and Hungary. In reality, though, the state still maintains intrusive involvement in many industrial assets. It is the reluctant unwinding of these holdings that leads to mass layoffs.
Yet, the long term outlook is indisputably bright.
The ministry of finance correctly forecast a rise in the country's GDP from 59 percent to 70 percent of the European Union's output in 2005 - comparable to Slovenia and far above Poland with a mere 40 percent. The Czech Republic was preparing itself to join the eurozone shortly after it had become a member of the EU in May 2004.
Foreign investors are gung ho. The country is now the prime investment destination among the countries in transition. In a typical daily occurrence, bucking a global trend, Matsushita announced its intention to further expand its television factory in Plzen. Its investment of $8 million will enhance the plant's payroll by one tenth to 1900 workers. Siemens - a German multinational - is ploughing $50 million into its Czech unit. Siemens Elektromotory's 3000 employees export $130 million worth of electrical engines annually.
None of this would have been possible without Germany's vote of confidence and overwhelming economic presence in the Czech Republic. The deteriorating fortunes of the Czech economy are, indeed, intimately linked to the economic stagnation of its northern neighbor, as many an economist bemoan. But this only serves to prove that the former's recovery is dependent on the latter's resurrection.
Either way, to have so overtly and blatantly abandoned Germany in its time of need would surely prove to be a costly miscalculation. The Czechs - like other central and east European countries - mistook a transatlantic tiff for a geopolitical divorce and tried to implausibly capitalize on the yawning rift that opened between the erstwhile allies.
Yet, Germany is one of the largest trading partners of the United States. American firms sell $24 billion worth of goods annually there - compared to $600 million in Poland. Germany's economy is five to six times the aggregated output of the EU's central European new members plus Slovakia.
According to the New York Times, there are 1800 American firms on German soil, with combined sales of $583 billion and a workforce of 800,000 people. Due to its collapsing competitiveness and rigid labor laws, Germany's multinationals relocate many of their operations to central and east Europe, Asia and north and Latin America. Even with its current malaise, Germany invested in 2001 $43 billion abroad and attracted $32 billion in fresh foreign capital.
Indeed, supporting the United States was seen by the smaller countries of the EU as a neat way to counterbalance Germany's worrisome economic might and France's often self-delusional aspirations at helmsmanship. A string of unilateral dictates by the French-German duo to the rest of the EU - regarding farm subsidies and Europe's constitution, for instance - made EU veterans and newcomers alike edgy. Hence the deliberate public snub.
Still, grandstanding apart, the nations of central Europe know how ill-informed are recent claims in various American media that their region is bound to become the new European locomotive in lieu of an aging and self preoccupied Germany. The harsh truth is that there is no central European economy without Germany. And, at this stage, there is no east European economy, period.
Consider central Europe's most advanced post-communist economy.
One third of Hungary's GDP, one half of its industrial production, three quarters of industrial sales and nine tenths of its exports are generated by multinationals. Three quarters of the industrial sector is foreign-owned. One third of all foreign direct investment is German. France is the third largest investor. The situation is not much different in the Czech Republic where the overseas sales of the German-owned Skoda alone account for one tenth the country's exports.
The relationship between Germany and central Europe is mercantilistic. Germany leverages the region's cheap labor and abundant raw materials to manufacture and export its finished products. Central Europe conforms, therefore, to the definition of a colony and an economic hinterland. From a low base, growth there - driven by frenzied consumerism - is bound to outstrip the northern giant's for a long time to come. But Germans stands to benefit from such prosperity no less than the indigenous population.
Aware of this encroaching "economic imperialism", privatization deals with German firms are being voted down throughout the region. In November, the sale of a majority stake in Cesky Telecom to a consortium led by Deutsche Bank collapsed. In Poland, a plan to sell Stoen, Warsaw's power utility, to Germany's RWE was scrapped.
But these are temporary - and often reversible - setbacks. Germany and its colonies share other interests. As The Economist noted correctly recently:
"The Poles may differ with the French over security but they will be with them in the battle to preserve farm subsidies. The Czechs and Hungarians are less wary of military force than the Germans but sympathize with their approach to the EU's constitutional reform. In truth, there are no more fixed and reliable alliances in the EU. Countries will team up with each other, depending on issue and circumstances."
Thus, the partners, Germany and central Europe, scarred and embittered, will survive the one's haughty conduct and the other's backstabbing. That the countries of Europe currently react with accommodation to what, only six decades ago, would have triggered war among them, may be the greatest achievement of the Euro-Atlantic enterprise.
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1931&cid=1&sid=27
ZOG mud troop invade the white eastern europe
Posted : 12/07/2006 6:11 am
Interesting post, Dogman.
It just so happens this subject was discussed in a recent VNN Broadcasting report. The conversation begins around 20 minutes into the audio...
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/?p=666
A White World (Pierce's Vision for our Race):
Posted : 12/07/2006 7:14 am
Actually for me as a German nationalist it would be wonderful news if all of the occupying forces stationed in Germany would leave for east Europe,or anywhere else in the world.
Unfortunately they will still leave some bases behind just to be sure that nothing "bad" happens in the fatherland.
What i found most discusting were the interviews given to the media by various local German businessmen and German politicians of the regions where us-bases are located.With almost tear-filled eyes they were begging the occupying troops to stay,because they make such huge profits out of them.
Unbeleivable if you ask me.
Here i think this fits well in here.An german article of a nationalist site talking about the recent polls made in Germany about the pro-and contra- EU sentiments among the population:
Deutsche mehrheitlich gegen EU-Erweiterung
08-07-2006"Brüssel (dpa). In der EU geht die Unterstützung für die EU-Erweiterung zurück. Auch der Entwurf einer EU-Verfassung hat insgesamt in der Union an Unterstützung verloren. Hingegen hat sich insgesamt das Image der EU bei den Bürgern verbessert. Dies sind die Ergebnisse der gestern veröffentlichten „Eurobarometer“-Umfragen des Statistischen Amtes der EU bei rund 29 000 Menschen.
EU-weit sind im Vergleich zur vorherigen Umfrage vom Herbst vergangenen Jahres nur noch 45 Prozent der Bürger (minus 4 Punkte) für die Erweiterung, während 42 (+3) dagegen sind. In Deutschland stieg die Zahl der Erweiterungsgegner um 7 Punkte auf 66 Prozent. Nur noch 28 Prozent der Deutschen (-8) sind für die Erweiterung. Luxemburg liegt mit 65 Prozent (+2) an Platz zwei der Ablehnungsfront. Die Befürworter der Erweiterung finden sich vor allem in den 2004 beigetretenen zehn neuen Mitgliedstaaten.(...)"
66 Prozent, also die absolute Mehrheit der Deutschen, sind gegen die Erweiterung der EU. Damit führt Deutschland die Gegner einer Erweiterung an.
Nun ist unsere Regierung gefordert, im Sinne des deutschen Volkes die geplante EU-Erweiterung zu verhindern, oder noch besser, gleich selber aus der EU auszutreten!
Denn wir sind nicht nur die größten Erweiterungsgegner, sondern auch die größten Beitragszahler an die EU! Bei einer nochmaligen Erweiterung wird man uns wieder die meisten Kosten auferlegen! Ständig redet die deutsche Regierung von fehlendem Geld in der Staatskasse. An dieser Stelle ließe sich sehr viel Geld einsparen!(zweistellige Milliardenbeträge!)Anstatt nach immer neuen Möglichkeiten zu suchen, wo man dem deutschen Volk noch mehr Geld aus den Taschen zieht, ist hier die deutsche Regierung gefordert, sich im Sinne des deutschen Volkes einzusetzen!
Aber mal ehrlich, glaubt wirklich jemand daran, daß „unsere“ Regierung endlich mal die Meinung des eigenen Volkes akzeptiert???
Autor: NB-WR
A quick translation of the most important points:
More than 66% of the Germans are against the enlargment of the EU by adopting eastern European states.
Only 28% !!! are pro-enlargement of the EU.
We as German NS of course demand the immidiate pulling out of our country from the EU and NATO and propose an alliance with Russia so to build an anti-western block.
In the age of Globalization,its not the international Left,but the nationalist Right,which is the true anticapitalist force,which will set restrictions on the international Capital and will secure and improve the nation-state as a social shelter.
Posted : 12/07/2006 7:15 am
Most Americans, even the beer drinking and TV watching variety, are suprised to learn we still have troops in Germany - and they too want them removed. Unfortunately, Germany has become an element in the "American" global empire.
A White World (Pierce's Vision for our Race):
Posted : 12/07/2006 7:33 am
They want to surround Russia, and make them bow to the jewish power in the west, even though I believe Putin and most of the Russian Gov't is still under Jew/Masonic power anyway.
All white men need to band together and rise up against the Jewish masonic powers that control our Nations!
R. James, the Aryan Union
Posted : 12/07/2006 7:56 am
Actually for me as a German nationalist it would be wonderful news if all of the occupying forces stationed in Germany would leave for east Europe,or anywhere else in the world.
I perfectly understand your joy, alex, but you can keep them. They are not wanted here.
back home.
Posted : 12/07/2006 9:28 am
There is no point to keeping US troops in Germany, nor has there been for a long time. I agree with Alex...Amis Raus. I was stationed in Germany in the 70's, when we had over 200,000 there, and now I think it's only 66,000. If they want to keep a deployment base for their sand games, Italy or the Balkans would do better. It's all a matter of playing chess with other people's country.
I had no doubt that the US kept a big army there to keep germany under control and give a lot of generals positions. We lived in all these rat trap Kasernes left over from the 30's and before, while the officers got servants and villas. As for the slight possibility of war, it was no secret that the US would waste Germany, as would the Russians, then make peace. As of 2006, there is no point to any foreign troops being there, and I'm not sure many are. I thought everyone went home. Alex, could you enlighten me?
Posted : 12/07/2006 2:06 pm
I perfectly understand your joy, alex, but you can keep them. They are not wanted here.
Something tells me a good percentage of eastern european sluts are just waiting with barely constrained joy for the american nigger g.i.s to arrive. You know these bases are loaded with a good number of mudmen. It'll be a fuckfest for the local hip-hop worshipping whores, and who knows, some of these niggers might ultimately marry them and help them get U.S. citizenship.
Posted : 12/07/2006 2:12 pm
steven clark,
about 70.000 US troops are stationed in Germany.Also worth mentioning is that beside the US troops,we have also British and French occupiers on German soil.Only the Russians respected us and moved all of their troops from Germany.Here on wikipedia more detailed http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standortliste_Deutschland
Also dont forget that the military headquaters of the US troops in Europe is also in Germany,namely in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.
One more point which maybe some of you dont know about:
Germany has up to this day never officialy signed a peace treaty with the Allied forces.
Ronen,
no need to degrade other white nations and its women.I'm sure Bulgarians are a very proud people who in their majority dont want US troops stationed on their country.
In the age of Globalization,its not the international Left,but the nationalist Right,which is the true anticapitalist force,which will set restrictions on the international Capital and will secure and improve the nation-state as a social shelter.
Posted : 12/07/2006 3:05 pm
Any one else see the joke in all this?
ZOG borrows money from China and Japan to send Afreakins to the Middle of Europe, where nobody wants them. ZOG borrows billions to do this. And will pay off those billions of dollars ZOG borrows? Mostly poor and getting poorer white Americans.
You can even look this up. The IRS don't audit millionaires or corporations anymore. The tax collectors only target middle-to-low income types.
WN movie makers, here's your big chance! Poor white Americans seeing exactly what they, and their children, and their grandchildren, get to pay taxes on forever, amen. Do it right and things might get interesting.
“When I get re-elected I'm going to fuck the Jews" -- Jimmy Carter, 1980.
Posted : 12/07/2006 3:20 pm
Ronen,
no need to degrade other white nations and its women.I'm sure Bulgarians are a very proud people who in their majority dont want US troops stationed on their country.
I've been to Bulgaria only recently. I regret to inform you that you're sadly mistaken. It's obvious that while many white racialists insist on objectivity with regards to other races, many racialists, like jews, find it likewise difficult to be objective about whites' shortcomings.
Posted : 12/07/2006 4:22 pm
I perfectly understand your joy, alex, but you can keep them. They are not wanted here.
Great God, I am glad to hear that. The last thing I want to see is racemixing US military filth coming to these clean White places.
Posted : 12/07/2006 6:55 pm
Further circle China. With all the deals going on in Eurasia gas pipelines , Unrest could erupt .The worlds gone goofy. We invade they're land and they invade us. Russia-China Sino deal to equalize US homogeny. Western Europe under the Islamic yoke. Japan, North Korea, Iran, damn, the world is in a tangle like a snake pit. As the chinks saying goes, May you live in interesting time.
Posted : 12/07/2006 7:20 pm
I've been to Bulgaria only recently. I regret to inform you that you're sadly mistaken. It's obvious that while many white racialists insist on objectivity with regards to other races, many racialists, like jews, find it likewise difficult to be objective about whites' shortcomings.
I know you were disappointed by what you saw here, but what were you expecting? Like every other European country, Bulgaria is ruled by jews. On the surface all you see is rasta wiggers, but underneath things are boiling.
In regard to the American bases - I think ZOG will find moving to the East has been a mistake in the long run. We haven't been beaten over the head with holocaust guilt , and "democracy" to us is just a word. Things are very quiet here at the moment. Too quiet. History shows what follows is a major blood bath. And we are still here after 1300 years, come turks, tatars, chazars and innumerable other scum. We have kept the door of Europe shut to asian invaders for centuries. And now we should worry about a bunch of stupid niggers? Ha. Sulking is no good. Have some pride.
For the record - 80% of Bulgarians are against foreign bases on our soil. Over 95% were against the Iraqi war.
back home.
Posted : 12/07/2006 8:59 pm
I know you were disappointed by what you saw here, but what were you expecting? Like every other European country, Bulgaria is ruled by jews. On the surface all you see is rasta wiggers, but underneath things are boiling.
In regard to the American bases - I think ZOG will find moving to the East has been a mistake in the long run. We haven't been beaten over the head with holocaust guilt , and "democracy" to us is just a word. Things are very quiet here at the moment. Too quiet. History shows what follows is a major blood bath. And we are still here after 1300 years, come turks, tatars, chazars and innumerable other scum. We have kept the door of Europe shut to asian invaders for centuries. And now we should worry about a bunch of stupid niggers? Ha. Sulking is no good. Have some pride.
For the record - 80% of Bulgarians are against foreign bases on our soil. Over 95% were against the Iraqi war.
Perserverance against all odds is one of the main factors in overcoming the stranglehold the jews have on the world. Many "americans" would do well to recognize the strength and courage it takes to do this. The people of Bulgaria, much like the people of Lithuania, have been subjected and abused for far too long. The average american does not have a clue. I am not happy that ZOG is sending bases into your area. Keep your strong heart and courage, Bolg. There are those of us who are with you and your people's fight to perservere.
Posted : 12/07/2006 10:38 pm
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