Germany

“If they had just stayed the course on nuclear, they would be in a much better place.”

“Now it's reported that Starlink is faster than the fixed broadband average in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, New Zealand, and France.”

“It's actually more permissive than any European country. But nobody knows that. France actually only allows abortion up to 14 weeks. Germany is like 16. So we're 20 here, so we're more liberal than Europe.”

“I think it's a fair analogy to say, That Germany is to Nat gas as we are to China supply chain.”

“Russian gas shipments which Germany is particularly dependent on, have fallen 89% since last year”

“And in hindsight, and I'm saying this as a Democrat, he was right about the German reliance on Russian gas and the European reliance on gas.”

“Germany will probably be the first to capitulate. But it'll be a combination of the United States and Europe who negotiate some kind of a settlement.”

“The West is never going to trust them again. The Germans are never going to buy their oil again.”

“Germany leaned heavily into rapid tests. They got their scientists together, and they, Evaluated a 122 different vendors and validated 96 of them. Here they are on the right. 96 different vendors that they okayed. And as a result, in the German market, you cou…”

“So, in the thirties, four major democracies, because of that dynamic, chose to be, their parliaments chose to be autocracies. That happened in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan.”

“In the book I look at the last 500 years, there's 16 times we've seen a rapidly rising power threaten a colossal ruling power. Think of Germany's rise, beginning of the 20th century, and the challenge to Great Britain, that became World War I. So most often, o…”

“Argentina at this time was wealthier than France or Germany. Twice as wealthy as Spain and had one of the top 10 highest GDP per capita of any nation on earth in 1913.”

“In Germany, AFD looks like they will win.”

“So Germany spent a half a trillion dollars, five hundred billion dollars on the quote, air quotes, transition to green energy. They were transitioning to wind and solar. Half a trillion, five hundred billion dollars. They today produce 20% less electricity, an…”

“These people are never going to buy his oil again. Not after what happened here.”

“84,000 politically motivated communications crimes in Germany, 6000 defined hate crimes based on speech in France.”

“Korea leads the way in robots per, per worker, right? They're at about one to 10 right now. Germany and China are tied at second. And the US then is a distant third.”

“I think Italy just reintroduced effectively what's called investment tax credits. Spain just did as well. Germany is restarting nuclear.”

“You can look at the UK and you can look at Germany and you can look at France and you have to ask yourself is the cultural deviation from where they were, has it been better? Or worse for those countries. And I think in general, it has been worse.”