However, hopefully the cycle of wanting to invade each other etc is broken. I mean, look at France and England, they used to be mortal enemies, but the cycle of war was broken and now they're pretty much best buds even if they tease each other from time to time.
Both the UK and France are nuclear nations & it's more important to examine the geopolitics than what people want, as what people want does not necessarily coincide with what will be done by people.
I made this thing to illustrate a point; the UK and France have not been at war since the Napoleonic wars, for they are neighbours separated by geographical barriers who have mutual interests shored up by the bonds of alliance. And luckily, our divergent interests are not cause for hostility. I would not use the UK-France alliance as proof that the cycle of war is broken, as the wheel is still turning. With our fingers crossed, the best we can aim for is that the wheel slows, then we can put it to a halt
The spate of recent terror attacks on European soil also played into the hands of right-wing agitators eager to connect the influx of migrants with Europeans' growing security concerns.
"IS please stop killing civilians, you're making the right wing stronger"
In Austria, meanwhile, there has been "a rise in share of [the] foreign-born population over the last 10 years," Rohac said. "Austrians will tell you they sort of fear becoming a minority in their own country, which is sort of silly. But the pace of change has been dramatic. … The hysteria over immigration is really unprecedented in this part of the world."
Ayy lmao stop being hysterical why we replace youRegarding Babis, I think that article indicates why Americans need to sort out their god awful piece of shit media. If it's not references to Harry Potter and Star Wars to explain politics it's everything is Trump, not even trying to empathize with a non-American viewpoint D:
Anyways LW take on Czech election results:
Czech Republic is not irrelevant.
Especially since it now solidifies a growing trend of the Visegrad group turning its eyes away from Berlin, and broadly all agreeing with one another on stricter border controls with Berlin & distance from Brussels.
What are ANO:
They're centrist liberals.
The media hype doesn't really live up to them. They're soft Eurosceptics, in that they don't want to set a fixed date for adopting the Euro for example, but the way the media covered them you'd think they'd be setting an independence date - nothing as exciting of the sort unfortunately, they're pretty mild in their convictions. This is aligned with much of the Visegrad Group's actions; try to eat from the EU and leave the shit, in as much capacity as humanly possible. Because Eastern Europe is yuropoor. Notable for having won in on populist grounds; holding politicians accountable for their wealth and "donations," corruption, transparency and so on. Hell, ANO aren't even opposed to adopting the Euro, they're just opposed to setting a fixed date. That barely even qualifies as eurosceptic in my book ffs, yet the media chalks up a hesitancy to run full swing into Merkel's playground as revolution.
ODS are conservatives (though they like to market themselves as liberal conservatives), who are again soft eurosceptics, but differ from ANO in that they're much more vocal in their opposition of EU policy. They oppose a federalized Europe and fully intend to frustrate attempts at integrating the Czech further into the EU, but otherwise do not seek repatriation of sovereignty or independence.
The Pirate Party imo are the coolest party to upset the traditional political stage and they get next to nil coverage, which is a shame, as they went from having no seats to having 10% of the votes. As the name suggests, they're all about protecting civil liberties, being anti-corruption and reforming copyright laws. But no one talks about them? Why? Obviously because the old establishment don't want the pirate parties to spread ;]
Also interestingly, within the EU the Czech Republic had one consistent ally: And that was the UK. Largely along the same lines of both countries wanting to be members of a free trade area, not a political hegemony, but since 2014
Babis had been moving the Czech from aligning with UK to Germany, thus it's quite apparent any Czech eurosceptics who actually voted for him are going to get further EU integration, not status quo or less.
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