@Stahesh @Justicar

Now draw a line from Germany to Mexico and understand just how far German living standards could fall.

@UncleIroh @Stahesh @Justicar It will take a long time unless you get massive diversity:
Greece is basically bankrupt since 2008 and it's still pretty far from Mexico (who benefits from sharing the border with the US).

@Zeb @UncleIroh @Stahesh not really. the germany's manufacturing industries are collapsing due to energy crisis. i read somewhere not that long ago that the damage done in a year after losing nordstream would take 2 or three decades to reverse. the situation is more serious than most people realize. even VW is letting go of 35k workers. that is unthinkable, even if 35k does not sound big but the reasons for it are.