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is the 65 year fluke over?
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| Joss Weatherby |
| Can you euro-fags get back to doing what you do best, killing each other on levels not seen anywhere else ever? |
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| Lira |
| Nou, you know I like you... however, I can't help but roll my eyes at this :rolleyes: |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Nou, you know I like you... however, I can't help but roll my eyes at this :rolleyes: |
lol, seriously though, look at Europe, look at their history. The last 65 years is a fluke in terms of the thousands of years before it... and now we have Greece ready to basically disolve the entire EU, at least the Euro... Its not looking very healthy at all there... Germans are down right rabid at the Greeks right now, there was some BBC report from the sother rhine country where they were describing ALL GREEKS as "cheats, thieves, tax-dodgers" and telling them to get out of Germany and that Germany shouldn't help the greeks because they are thieves! |
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| Lira |
Crises happen. It's simple as that. No big project such as the Eurozone is expected to happen without some turbulence every now and then.
It'd be stupid to throw it all up in the air just like that. I can even find a word to say how detached from reality you must be to even hope for a war in this scenario...
... or in most scenarios, for that matter. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Crises happen. It's as simple as that. No big project such as the Eurozone is expected to happen without some turbulence every now and then.
It'd be stupid to throw it all up in the air just like that. I can even find a word to say how detached from reality you must be to even hope for a war in this scenario...
... or in most scenarios, for that matter. |
I think the eurozone is totally flawed and half-assed. They want their cake and eat it too.
You have very proud nations that want to remain sovereign, but then they have the EU body that wants to some how dominate them, but really cant because of the former statement... Its .
They also let in everyone and anyone in an early run up I think fueled by old people that still had the cold war/NATO mentality of more is more is more and we need it because someone else (not Russia though) will get it. So they let in countries like Greece.
If Greece was out of the EU, not on the Euro, it'd be a Greek problem. Now its a Euro problem, for everyone in the EU and pretty much everyone on the continent, EU or not.
Its a bad bad bad idea and its more quickly rearing its head than I think a lot of people thought. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I think the eurozone is totally flawed and half-assed. They want their cake and eat it too.
You have very proud nations that want to remain sovereign, but then they have the EU body that wants to some how dominate them, but really cant because of the former statement... Its .
They also let in everyone and anyone in an early run up I think fueled by old people that still had the cold war/NATO mentality of more is more is more and we need it because someone else (not Russia though) will get it. So they let in countries like Greece.
If Greece was out of the EU, not on the Euro, it'd be a Greek problem. Now its a Euro problem, for everyone in the EU and pretty much everyone on the continent, EU or not.
Its a bad bad bad idea and its more quickly rearing its head than I think a lot of people thought. |
Greece has been part of the European Union for nearly 30 years, so it's not nearly a newcomer (not to mention the fact that it is hardly a "ty country"), and it doesn't justify your craving for more wars in the old world. |
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| MGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
the fact that it is hardly a "ty country" |
Define ty country. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MGT
Define ty country. |
He's the one that came up with the term and it's up to him to define that but, whatever it is, I can hardly believe that a country that has a high human development index, a low gini coefficient, and which is among the top 20-30 when it comes to its GDP (PPP) per capita (so the money isn't all in the hands of a small group of people) is a "(ty) country".
Should that be the case, the world would smell a lot worse than it does ;) |
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| couch-potato |
| Clearly he's bored of playing WWII video games & wants new content. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
If Greece was out of the EU, not on the Euro, it'd be a Greek problem. Now its a Euro problem, for everyone in the EU and pretty much everyone on the continent, EU or not. |
Greece not being able to meet its debt obligations is a problem for other countries, regardless which currency Greece is using. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Greece not being able to meet its debt obligations is a problem for other countries, regardless which currency Greece is using. |
True, but that wouldn't be as huge a deal if they werent part of the Euro zone.
Lira, the EU has only been around 17 years. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Clearly he's bored of playing WWII video games & wants new content. |
WWII video games are boring, have been for a long time. ArmA2 came from the original game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.
Cold War ftw. So much simpler. :p |
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