Germany’s ‘Slow-Motion Suicide’

Germany for example has been

systematically shutting down its nuclear

plants and for a while its natural gas

electrical generation plants but the net

result of all of this deliberate turn to

wind and solar at the expense of fossil

fuels and nuclear is that it cost about

four times more to use electricity in

Germany than it does on average

throughout the United States that's not

the only problem Germany represents the

PowerHouse traditionally of the European

economy and even culture and it's

starting to

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implode hi I'm Victor Davis Hansen for

the daily

signal today I'd like to talk about the

crisis facing Europe specifically its

self-implosion across the Spectrum

energy population fertility defense

Germany for example has been

systematically shutting down its nuclear

plants and for a while its natural gas

electrical generation plants it's

relying believe it or not more on oil

and coal but the net result of all of

this deliberate turn to wind and solar

at the expense of fossil fuels and

nuclear is that it cost about four times

more to use electricity in Germany than

it does on average throughout the United

States that's not the only problem

Germany is de-industrializing and by

that I mean it's losing about 200,000

jobs in its Auto industry due to these

high energy prices and regulations its

green mandates especially electric

vehicle mandates have

revolutionized the car industry in the

sense that they're not selling abroad as

they did in the past in addition to that

Germany's disarmed they only have about

12 5 attack aircraft they have very few

armored vehicles they their military

their active military is only about

180,000 soldiers they have 84 million

people in the

country the fertility rate is getting

very close to 1.4 I know we have

problems here in the United States at

1.6 but

1.4 and they don't have borders they

have had a million to two million

illegal aliens just prance into Germany

especially during the last years of the

Merkel

chancellorship in terms of percentage of

foreign born Germany has more foreign

born than does the United States which

doesn't have a border in the south at

least until Donald Trump comes in 20% of

the German population is foreign born

why am I mentioning all of this because

Germany represents the PowerHouse

traditionally of the European economy

and even culture and it's starting to

implode the Euro The Benchmark of

European Financial Health is about right

now as I speak at the end of December $1

to one Euro and sometimes uh even less

for the Euro that's very strange because

when I used to run a travel company and

go to Europe I remember in 2008 the Euro

was

1.6 almost 1.7 per the dollar so what's

happening is that Germany is I guess we

would call it undertaking a slow motion

suicide but here's the irony in

September 1944 at the height of World

War

II the Secretary of the Treasury under

the Roosevelt administration Henry

morganthau had a plan for postwar

Germany When It Was Defeated he didn't

want another War the Franco Prussian war

of 18771 World War One World War II he

said enough so what did he do he

submitted a plan that was going to

de-industrialized Germany depopulate

Germany change its borders it was almost

as if he was trying to turn it into

something like tacitus is description of

first century ad Germany as a pastoral

agrarian society in fact he explicitly

said that when J Joseph Geral heard

about this he he said oh my God this is

a gift we're losing the war we'll tell

all of the German people they want us to

be permanently pastoral we'll starve to

death and even if they don't like the

Naes as we've destroyed the country or

losing War they'll

fight thankfully George Marshall Chief

of Staff of the army ex-president

Herbert Hoover and others went to the

Roosevelt administration said if you

Institute this plan they're going to

fight to the death and we have bombed

Germany so when we get into Germany

you'll see that it's almost depopulated

now the net result was they canceled the

Morgan thou plan that would have

permanently made Germany depop ated

disarmed

de-industrialized what's my point in

bringing up this historical example we

the victors of World War II thought

imposing a plan of deliberate

de-industrialization

depopulation

disarmament open borders destroyed

borders would be too carthaginian and so

we backed off and now we're

here 80 years after the rejection of the

Morgan through plan and the German

people or the German leadership have

essentially updated it and inflicted it

on themselves willingly not by coercion

that's a tragic irony and uh it's

something we should all take a very

close