German press: US overestimates its strength

The West feels itself a hegemon and considers it entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. This primarily concerns the United States.

German columnist Bettina Gaus writes about this in her article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Gaus believes that the United States overestimates its strength and capabilities, and this can be dangerous for them and the rest of the West. The German press notes that militarily strong world powers are not always committed to Western values, and the United States is trying to reproach them for not meeting its standards. At the same time, Washington must understand that at the same time, many of its allies do not pay enough attention to their own security.

The journalist also drew attention to Biden's harsh statements, which he made before meeting in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gaus believes that the American leader did this to maintain his own image and the image of the United States. The President of the United States tries to show that he is cordial with allies and tough with opponents.

But at the same time, it is time for Washington and its allies to understand that the West has long ceased to rule the world and has no right to impose its standards on everyone.

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

- notes Gaus.

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[SERGE ANT]

The West feels itself a hegemon and considers it entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. This primarily concerns the United States.

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[Tatyana]

German press: US overestimates its strength

Well done Bettina Gaus!
This German woman boldly gave the West everything RIGHT - not in the eyebrow, but in the eye!

[KAV]

The German press notes that militarily strong world powers are not always committed to western values, and the United States is trying to reproach them for not complying their standards.

Instead of the words "values" and "standards", you can easily use the word "wishes", or "desires". The whole point is that the United States imposes its wishes on the whole world, hypocritically calling them values. However, these are far from being values ​​for the rest of the world.

[Uncle lee]

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

And are there any, these values?

[KAV]

Quote: Uncle Lee

And are there any, these values?

The United States, without a doubt, has these values! For them, value is solely in profit. They even assess the expediency of war in monetary terms.

[Uncle lee]

Quote: KAV

in profit

These are no longer values, but expediency, that is, profit! Grandma!

[For example]

Value is money. From the word price.
Value is that which is valued has a price.
In the west, everyone wants to transfer to loot.

And our life, conscience, family and many other things have no value.

[Hypertension]

Quote: For example

And our life, conscience, family and many other things have no value.

Our life has a price. The minimum wage is 12792 rubles. Grocery basket ~ 10000 rubles.
I won't say about conscience, I don't know. But I think Tereshkova or Bezrukov and Mashkov know how much.
Family ... First place in Europe for divorce where? That's right - in the Russian Federation. fifty%
"Many other things" are also bought and sold.
So do not make yourself appear holier than the Pope. Grandma is a value in Europe, in the USA, in Russia, and in the whole world.

[For example]

Quote: Hyperion

Our life has a price. The minimum wage is 12792 rubles.

It is with you.
For Russians, life is priceless.

Quote: Hyperion

Grandma is a value in Europe, in the USA, in Russia, and in the whole world.

I don’t even feel sorry for you.
This is your choice.

Over time, I think views will change.
It is the views.
Maybe time will make you stop rushing to extremes.

Money is a tool in the life of society.
No one is calling for them to be canceled, because they have not yet come up with anything to replace them.
So much has been written about dependence on them that it is not possible to read everything in a lifetime.

Perhaps you will understand that it is not possible to buy a family for yourself.
I won't even talk about the rest.

May God grant you as much money as you can take with you.

[Hypertension]

Quote: For example

It is with you.
For Russians, life is priceless.

How is this expressed? In increasing the retirement age, a la "worked in a wooden mac"? Or is medicine in Russia not getting worse and worse every day? Dreamer...

Quote: For example

Perhaps you will understand that it is not possible to buy a family for yourself.

Oh well. Modern women, of course, don't look at their wallets, yeah.

Quote: For example

I won't even talk about the rest.

Thank you. I do not like to read naive and pretentious nonsense.

[For example]

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

The world does not revolve around buggers.
Only a homosexual could come up with the idea to declare perversion a value.
Only perverts could come up with the idea to declare Europe the territory of homosexuals.

As they say, who fought for what, he ran into it.


zs The other day I registered my phone in one of the messenger programs.
They offer to choose your gender;
- male;
- female;
- other;
and some other fourth option.

They are sick. You need to stay away from these. Like lepers.

[sabakina]

For example, the fourth option is an alien?

[For example]

Maybe so. I just want to believe that aliens have men and women. Well, they reproduce by budding to the extreme.
I don’t want to believe that they are homosexuals.

[sabakina]

With their level of development, I think this is unlikely.

[El Chuvachino]

You regularly mention homosexuals through your commentary. Enough already? Hearing about them is sickening.

[For example]

Quote: El Chuvachino

Hearing about them is sickening.

Everyone hears what he wants to hear.

I wrote not about homosexuals, but about the imposed "European" values. "
It is impossible to evaluate (translate into money) neither life, nor conscience, nor love, nor family (mom, dad, children ...).

So what you hear remains in European values.

Cheers, Dude.

[Hypertension]

Quote: For example

So what you hear remains in European values.

So you would write about other European values. Well, there is a standard of living, human rights, high-quality roads - that's all. But you only write about homosexuals.

[For example]

Our roads in Moscow are better than in many European cities.
More people live in Moscow than in some European countries.

Our country is so huge that it is simply not realistic to build roads like those in Moscow every second.

Compare the standard of living in Moscow and in the provinces. The difference is that mama don't grieve.

The standard of living in Moscow is not worse than in Europe.

So save your nagging for your cat.

You are constantly comparing the standard of living of a well-to-do person in the EU and a provincial in Russia.

What human rights do you lack in Russia?
What exactly were you infringed upon?
.

[Hypertension]

In Moscow, in Moscow, in Moscow ... Moscow is not all of Russia.

Quote: For example

Our country is so huge that it is simply not realistic to build in it every second orogs similar to those in Moscow.

And what is the problem of building a normal road in the 21st century? The Romans built two thousand years ago - it is still preserved in places.
And what about the prices for road construction in Russia?
The road to Sochi is three times more expensive than a flight to Mars
https://www.s-bc.ru/news/doroga-v-sochi-vtroe-dorozhe-poleta-na-mars.html
And in Rostov they put the road ... or rather, put it on the road ...

Quote: For example

You are constantly comparing the standard of living of a well-to-do person in the EU and a provincial in Russia.

What is this nonsense? If I compare the standard of living here and here, then only by the minimum wage.

[WIKI]

Quote: For example

You need to stay away from these. Like lepers.

Have you registered your phone? Did the benefits of civilization take precedence over beliefs?

[For example]

Quote: WIKI

Did the benefits of civilization still prevail over beliefs?

These are not beliefs - this is the way of life of Russian people.
There is a man and a woman.
The third is not given by God.

The "blessings of civilization" do not influence this fact in any way.

Do you have doubts about your own identity?
"The benefits of civilization" made you doubt who you are?

[WIKI]

There is only one thing I do not understand. If "They are sick," why do you use their services. It is not even an hour to get infected. If you are so principled, you could find yourself more decent company.

[Tatyana]

Quote: KAV

Instead of the words "values" and "standards", you can easily use the word "wishes", or "desires". The whole point is that the United States imposes its wishes on the whole world, hypocritically calling them values. However, these are far from being values ​​for the rest of the world.

Strange photo.
Why, at the same time, in the photo to the article around Biden are African Americans MOST?
So who rules over whom in the United States?
As the saying goes: does the dog rule the tail or does the tail rule the dog?

Taking into account the internal political situation in the United States - well, a very strange photo with Biden !!!

[Egoza]

Quote: Tatiana

Why, at the same time, in the photo to the article around Biden, there are MOST African Americans?

And, may men forgive me, pay attention to the "volumes" of these "poor, tortured descendants of slaves." Each is like Genuaria (remember in the TV series "Slave Izaura" there was a Negro cook).

[For example]

Quote: Tatiana

Taking into account the internal political situation in the United States - well, a very strange photo with Biden !!!

Slaves stand around the master, who sits at the table.

What seemed strange to you?

[For example]

For the sweet.

The torn economy of the gas station country remembers its hero.

[sabakina]

For example, the oddity in their weight. Well this is how to feed them?

[For example]

Stuff

[For example]

And more.

Slave traders bought slaves in Africa from the blacks themselves.
Among the leaders of the Negro tribes.

In fact, the Negroes themselves traded with their fellow tribesmen.

In the white house there are modern black leaders.
Earlier, in Africa, for the trade of tribesmen, Negro leaders received beads and other crap.
Now blacks get positions instead of beads.

Nothing changed.

[For example]

Quote: Tatiana

around Biden are African Americans MOST?

You are behaving politically incorrectly.
You call blacks African-American, but you don't call Biden Euro-American.
This is not politically correct.

After all, Biden is Euro-American, because he is not an Indian.

More attentively in the future.
If you decide to fulfill the will of the State Department and be politically correct in the American way, then do not infringe on the rights of Euro-Americans.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Look at their age. These are apparently Biden's "classmates" ..)

[diden]

there was still aunt Sarah in some party, she also spoke sensibly about everything that was happening Sarah Wagenknecht seemed

[Prisoner]

It looks like they are starting to come to their senses.

[Egoza]

Quote: Captive

It looks like they are starting to come to their senses.

Ooh! What a smart journalist! But since her article has been published, it is not just a "bell", but the bell is already ringing! "For whom the Bell Tolls?" - asked Hemingway. Now the answer is: in the USA!

[alex neym_2]

Does it seem, or is it a dream, that the west is gradually recovering from the striped plague? Although, oh, how far to real results - deep in the country ... they sit and tied with one rope ...

[Retvizan 8]

Yeah ! I really want to give a damn about the statements of American leaders about God's chosenness and elitism of their nation. And the main thing is that they themselves sincerely believe in it!

[tihonmarine]

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

Gaus wiped her nose to the states, well done!

[nnm]

German press: US overestimates its strength

Colleagues, the translation is somewhat incorrect.
Оригинал: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/der-westen-und-russland-lebensgefaehrliche-selbstueberschaetzung-a-28948312-c657-4c34-8335-deb0a5440c81
- "Isn't it time for the WEST to adequately assess its strength?"

[sabakina]

nnm, the same eggs, only in profile.

[nnm]

Let me disagree with you for the following reasons:
1. Still, the West and the United States are not identical concepts. And the article from this nuance looks much more voluminous - it does not just indicate an overestimation of the US forces, but already contains a call to reflect on the Western countries themselves about the fact that the existence of a unipolar world has come to an end. That is, in part, this is already an awareness of the gap, the withdrawal of the West from US control.
2. The article contains only a call to think about whether the enmity with Russia is worth the efforts that are being made. Why, for the sake of your self-esteem, reduce the article to an alleged statement of a conjectured fact. The article is good without it.

[APASUS]

Rather, the West overestimated the capabilities of the American president!
And the fact that the country is not ruled by him, it became clear under Biden

[Uncle lee]

Quote: APASUS

the country is not run by him

And this gang shown in the photo!

[rocket757]

The West feels itself a hegemon and considers it entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. This primarily concerns the United States.

Not for the first time ... empires have done this. And then the barbarians or someone else come and there is no stone unturned from the empires! This is also a natural result.

[cniza]

Greetings!

Yes, history is useful to know and periodically re-read ...

[rocket757]

Hi
Well, yes, history is not just a useful thing, knowing it often helps keep your skin in place!

[cniza]

The state cannot develop and even survive without the lessons of history, they must be learned and remembered.

[rocket757]

Who would argue ... only those in power want to eat a fish and ... a lot of other things, as a rule, in their selfish interiors.
The literate population does not fit into these Wishlist.

[cniza]

Stupid authorities, yes, but smart ones are not allowed there, so the eternal question is being resolved ...

[rocket757]

Greedy without measure and do not consider themselves their own in this, in OUR country .... compradors, in a word.

[cniza]

Cuts ears when they speak - in this country, not in ours, but in this

[rocket757]

So and so for a long time everything has been clear ... only the inhabitants of OUR country will not get together in any way and they will not put proper order here.
Alas, alas, so far ... they are completely guests, and we are not the hosts.

[cniza]

Yes, inertia and unwillingness to do for oneself are very high ...

[rocket757]

I don’t know what state the people of the country are in, but it’s not far from a coma.

[cniza]

I am not ready to evaluate so extremely, but nothing good is foreseen yet, this is for sure ...

[rocket757]

To agitate, to rear up the country, how dumb ... there are a lot of destroyers, creators who know how to do better are not observed.

[cniza]

Do not break down, we have stability for 20 years and a lot could be achieved, but alas, we only dream about peace ...

[rocket757]

Stability is a word ... nice, sort of, but creepy!
It is clear that STABLE GROWTH is a blessing!
But stability, as in churchyards, will not bring us any good.

[Reptiloid]

Good evening, comrades, I read it and thought that for 7 or 8 years we have been experiencing an economic recession. Someone is happy with our stability and is working to preserve it. There are too many of these characters.

[rocket757]

Hi Dmitry
We have different workers, but, in the basis, all the same, the policy of comprodor sits, so it will not be good.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

Hi Dmitry
We have different workers, but, in the basis, all the same, the policy of comprodor sits, so it will not be good.

Already their second or third generation after the destruction of the USSR. That is, it was precisely the stratum that Stalin fought with, a class for himself, was established.

[rocket757]

Under Stalin, there were simply no such people. Not just for themselves, but with deliberate harm to the country they are robbing.
As we now say / warn the most bad things ... "guys, do not steal from losses, steal from profits"!

[Reptiloid]

good evening, Victor! I remembered your comment, but I could not formulate it right away .... After all, such courtiers favoites, of the old times, who are known for the appropriation of the state --- Menshikov, Minikh, Potemkin, the Orlov brothers, one way or another, worked for the development, for the prosperity of Russia. No such people appeared after Paul. Are there specific thieves already? Nikolai1 --- fought against embezzlement, but Nikolai1 was not interested ..

..... after all, there is no need to irritate public opinion .....

These are his words.
At what representatives of different nations stole.

[rocket757]

Hi Dmitry
Theft / embezzlement ... at different times, under different rulers / volosts, it was different ...
Now is not the best period for us, in many respects.
It is necessary to finish, correct, ELIMINATE .... this will not end well.

[Reptiloid]

And each of the embezzlers may think ----
-

if a little is taken from a lot,
then this is not theft, but just carve-up.

[rocket757]

Vices always go with humanity / man.
Simple choice, they command you or you don't follow them.

[TermNachTer]

Smart thoughts have appeared - it's a pity the rulers won't hear them.

[wow]

The phrase "European values" is already sick of ....

[cniza]

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

- notes Gaus.

The voice of the crying will strangle that too ...

[rocket757]

One will be strangled, so there are FOLLOWING on the way.
All this \ similar happened and after the period of obscurantism the Renaissance came! Not everyone, of course, will wait for this moment, but it will.

[cniza]

We will always believe in the best ...

[rocket757]

You can already see where some movement is already underway in the gamerope.

[cniza]

Yes, it began to reach some, but while they are waiting ...

[rocket757]

They do it, but it’s quiet, quiet, because otherwise it will cover with a shrill, aggressive wave.

[cniza]

Let's hope they get bolder soon ...

[Real Pilot]

Quote: Uncle Lee

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

And are there any, these values?

Of course have.
They lie in banks and museums; over the centuries of colonialism, Western civilization has robbed itself of many valuables! This provided power and a high standard of living at the expense of other peoples.
And now Western countries are weakening. It is no longer possible to simply send a gunboat, so the robbery moved from the phase of violence to the phase of deception. And "European values" are imposed on buying and imitating.
But this method also starts to fail! That's why they cry ...

[demo]

Chained by one chain,
Linked by one purpose.

Collaboration smears like soot.
I take someone’s hand, but I feel my elbow.
I look for the eyes, but I feel the look
Where above the goals is the butt.

Hot Nautilus sang this song about another country, but the content is very consistent with the state of the West.

[rotmistr60]

The sun does not revolve around the Earth, and the world revolves around European values.

Well said and with a focus on reality. But unfortunately Europe will continue to revolve around the United States, waving its "values". Let the West digest these "values" inside itself and do not climb with them into normal (morally healthy) countries. It is not yet known how this will end for the same Europe, although it can be assumed.

[Knell wardenheart]

However, it would be a great illusion to underestimate the degree of consolidation of the Western world and the degree of its influence in world architecture. At the moment, the West is both financial and trade architecture, and an example of a successful splicing of science and industry, this is the best education and standard of living, this is the overwhelming number of cultural products of all kinds (movies, TV series, music, arts, games, device design), this is the most large-scale and organized from the military alliances that have ever existed (I deliberately do not use the word "effective" due to the impossibility of assessing this very criterion). Finally, this is an example of a more or less stable political system based on the electoral turnover of power of different currents.
It is not so important who will or will not recognize Western values ​​at the STATE level outside - the world of globalism implies that in the case of IGNORING this problem, the most active "ions" (most of them by a minimum) will leave the inferior systems and strive for a better organized Western community , fueling its further development and detachment from less progressive communities. This will ultimately lead to three of the possible options:
1) Military-confrontational. Passively provoked by the Western world, as they say.
2) Sufficient approximation of a statistically significant% of non-Western countries to the Western way of life and internal organization - that is, the path of communities grouped around regional leaders. Under these conditions, the Western world will cease to receive a stable influx of passionaries and, over time, will be eroded and reorganized due to internal problems, surrendering some of its positions (the evolution of South Africa can be considered as an example).
3) Unionistic. A number of states that are currently confrontational with the West will move closer on the basis of a more or less healthy compromise with the West and in the future will become part of it. We can cite as an example how the conditional "West" over time digested Spain, France (post-Napoleonic), Germany (post-fascist). Due to which the% of Western leadership will be increased, at some point other countries will be forced to unambiguously abandon the active confrontational policy, because it will either lose powerful nuclei of the alternative (strong regional antagonistic states), or will be regionally localized and turn into " bearish corner of the world. "

[Griffith]

There is only one option. In view of the development of technology and the deafening of mankind (maybe with the exception of the untouchable caste), there is only one future: either the complete destruction of mankind or the survival of a part and the construction of a new mankind on new social rules.

[Knell wardenheart]

I partly agree with you because people historically preferred a war in case of favorable conditions to an agreement. And in general, it was so - until the acquisition of nuclear weapons and high-precision automated weapons on an industrial scale - be it ICBMs, drones, cruise missiles, etc. These two factors have made humanity much more sensitive to war, even in favorable conditions. In the case of long-term preservation of these factors or the emergence of others, comparable in destructiveness and non-resistance, there are POSSIBLE options for the gradual merging of systems with different models, but a similar level of well-being.
As for the destruction of mankind - I fully admit that a situation of extremely destructive war may develop - both for the population and for the environment. However, even now, on our planet, there are states that are quite ready for this - on the one hand, located on the block periphery, on the other hand, they are quite developed and moderately self-sufficient, on the third, they are located in hard-to-reach and SPECIALLY ecologically isolated regions.
There can survive (without sharp social conflicts) not only the existing population, but also a stable state, and therefore science, education, medicine, agriculture - and other environment for the preservation and accumulation of knowledge.
First of all, I'm of course about Iceland, and secondly about Switzerland. To a lesser extent, this applies to the high-mountain states of Latin America, and Australia closes the list.
All these states are united by their third-rate status in terms of world conflict, the relative obsession of available resources, a relatively small population with a high level of development of a complex territory. Iceland has a natural generation of energy efficiency, fresh water reserves, greenhouses, rare earth metals - it is geographically distanced.
Switzerland has an excellent civil defense system, a small but prepared for defense and highly educated population, a territory convenient for defense and long-term shelter, a high level of science and hydroponics.
The Latin American highland states have a convenient climatic and generation (SES) location, established in difficult agricultural conditions, and are far from military bases and decision-making centers.

So at this and the predicted stage of development - hardly humanity or civilization will perish completely.