The State of Affairs in Russia

[Valmy]

They should demand Mongolia pay back the tribute given to the Mongol/Tartar yoke as well.

Reparations from Poland for supporting the False Dimitry.

[Martinus]

I'd think that Russia owes Germany and many other nations financial restitution for having had to cope with and blunt the spread of Russian Communist Totalitarianism. So at the least it's a wash as for who owes who money.   

Germany files a counter suit for lost earnings for those assets under the DDR.

Last time I checked you can't sue for lost war.

[Zanza]

"It is possible that frau Merkel, who so longs for more sanctions against Russia, would never even have been born if it were not for the kindness of the victors towards the defeated," Fokunin said, referring to social programmes organised by the USSR in East Germany after the war.

Yowza.

Merkel was born in the "British sector" of Western Germany anyway. Her parents only moved to Eastern Germany afterwards.

[Tonitrus]

"It is possible that frau Merkel, who so longs for more sanctions against Russia, would never even have been born if it were not for the kindness of the victors towards the defeated," Fokunin said, referring to social programmes organised by the USSR in East Germany after the war.

Yowza.

Merkel was born in the "British sector" of Western Germany anyway. Her parents only moved to Eastern Germany afterwards.

Moving from West to East?  Cold War propaganda assured us in the decadent West that such a thing is impossible.

[CountDeMoney]

Germany files a counter suit for lost earnings for those assets under the DDR.

Last time I checked you can't sue for lost war.

  Not sure how it looks over there, but I'm pretty sure the conventional wisdom is that Germany was on the winning side of the Cold War.

[Razgovory]

Germany files a counter suit for lost earnings for those assets under the DDR.

Last time I checked you can't sue for lost war.

  Not sure how it looks over there, but I'm pretty sure the conventional wisdom is that Germany was on the winning side of the Cold War.

And the losing side!

[derspiess]

Honecker definitely lost.  Poor fella.  He may have even slightly changed facial expressions when the DDR fell.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The New Cold War
It will take much more than weapons to save Ukraine—and keep Russia at bay.
By Anne Applebaum

Hard to take seriously any op-ed that actually used the term "gnomes of Zurich".

iirc; i've seen it used on The Economist too.
"http://www.economist.com/news/international/21642185-it-still-time-america-move-gnomes-zurich-mission"

[Sheilbh]

Yeah. It's a common phrase in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8534936.stm

[Norgy]

Harold Wilson used it first, didn't he?

[Sheilbh]

Harold Wilson used it first, didn't he?

I think so. Protecting Sterling from the gnomes of Zurich. Tapping into the native distrust of the British people for the Swiss.

[Tamas]

Harold Wilson used it first, didn't he?

I think so. Protecting Sterling from the gnomes of Zurich. Tapping into the native distrust of the British people for the Swiss.

not racist AT ALL

[Solmyr]

Yeah, it's offensive to gnomes.

[Norgy]

Judging from what I have seen, the gnomes have had their revenge by invading British gardens.

[The Larch]

Harold Wilson used it first, didn't he?

I think so. Protecting Sterling from the gnomes of Zurich. Tapping into the native distrust of the British people for everybody in continental Europe.

FYP.