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Originally Posted by Richard
It's far more than money with Germany - defense of the homeland is one thing for them, but the divisiveness anytime a debate of any military actions beyond that specific task takes place runs emotionally deep with them, and centers around both constitutional and firmly rooted issues of Germany's collective national psyche for several generations now.
Richard 
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That's what happens when you have a national memory of being yanked up short and monkey stomped by the untermensch halfway through your dreams of world domination. Twice no less.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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