it's true. resting on your laurels can have that affect. germans are deeply awash in ideological pride and a superiority complex covered with a pharisaical cloak of alleged shame and regret for activities conducted from 1933 to 1945. peek behind this cloak and you'll see germany using slave wages to get cheap resources from the third world, participating in the invasion of russia as we speak, and draining eastern european countries of their labor pool to meet its economic needs, and using economic and military threats to keep most of europe as its satellites. so literally nothing has changed, all the aggression and theft is the same as it was before, but cloaked in green and pink and rainbow words and ideology. we aren't bombing russia for fascism, this time we're bombing russia for democracy. we aren't draining eastern europe's population and taking over their economies for lebensraum, this time we're doing it for european solidarity. we aren't raiding the third world for colonialism, this time we're doing it for free trade.  the lyrics to the song have changed yet the tune remains exactly as it was in 1914 and 1939. germany will not change until it is physically dismantled and divided into smaller, dependent states. west germany was a horrible invention. it should have been divided into 12+ independent states and the idea of a united germany equated to nazism.
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