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Originally Posted by CroFlames
On the other hand, Germany continues to rise up economically, and rightfully so. They don't abandon their poor people like the USA does, so I'd be right happy to see Germany emerge as the economic superpower of the next 50 years.
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Germany is simply too small to be an economic superpower. And given demographics, they're only going to get smaller. Which is why they were enthusiastic champions of the whole European Union project - Europe can only compete with the U.S. and China as a unified whole. The problem is that European countries have diverse and, it has become apparent, mutually exclusive attitudes about things like productivity, thrift, and fiscal policy.