Bugger, had a long opinion and tech issue wiped out the content.
Basically EV/CC is globalisation 2. Guess which country stealthily exploited to build up consensus, demands, and a market? That's the difference between elitist policies pushing on the national policies v sovereign state dictate a condition to flourish nationally.
Germany is a victim of the famous Kissinger quote. Throw in Canada, France and Oz. There are no free lunches. Paul Keating's recent opinions are closer to reality on AUKUS.
NATO/EU are digging a much bigger hole as they try to mitigate the failure of their proxy Ukraine and the VW is just a financial symptoms. When Ukraine is official a failure with the Kabul theme, they will focus on Taiwan and preparing the groundwork using the Semi battles.
We are now sampling a potential Ukraine 2 in the making. The wild card is who is the next POTUS and this has important implications for all except the unfortunate Palestinians.
