Britain, a country that hurts Germany.
On January 31, 2020, the EU officially passed the UK's Brexit agreement, which means that after 5 years of ripping, the UK has finally completed the divestiture with the EU, and since then the two sides have cut off their robes and officially become neighbors whose well water does not violate the river water.
The fundamental reason why the United Kingdom left the Eu is that in the 47 years of the European Union, the British efforts and gains are completely out of proportion, specifically, they do not get the benefits they should enjoy, but the obligations they assume make the United Kingdom unable to breathe, such as the apportionment of poverty alleviation indicators and refugee problems.
Because it has been wronged, the UK chose to end its relationship with the EU. The so-called people have their own aspirations, in the face of the British departure, the EU finally chose to disperse and gather.
But the problem is that although britain is psychologically separated from the EU by 18,000 miles, it is geographically dependent on the EU landscape, and this appearance of separation has made Germany feel unprecedented pressure.
A very important reason for such an embarrassing situation is that Germany, as a veritable EU leader, has a resounding appeal within the EU, and the relationship between the EU and the UK is essentially a discord between Germany and the UK.
The fundamental reason why Germany and Britain are inseparable is:
Britain, as a sea power, has always had the ambition to compete with the mainland; while Germany, as a land power power, has long maintained the spirit of galloping across the ocean.
It should be said that this is a portrayal of the contradiction between the British and almost all the european continental powers, but the Anglo-German contradictions are particularly incompatible.
The anglo-German contradiction began to become clear as early as the dark Middle Ages.
Although they are all descendants of the Germanic people, the Anglo-Saxons, as a branch of the Germanic peoples of the North Sea, crossed the ocean to the British Isles because of the expulsion of the Hun Empire in the 5th century, and eventually became the origin of British civilization.
The Germanic Kingdom of East Francia became the predecessor of Germany and in 962 established the Holy Roman Empire, which influenced the historical landscape of Europe.
Since the sea was best isolated in the Middle Ages, when productivity levels were low, the British Isles had a relatively safe and maverick trajectory.
Of course, although it has sprung up on the island, Britain still does not forget its mainland ancestral homeland, and is always ready to "return home" and establish a base on the European continent, so France across the English Channel bears the brunt of it and bears the blow of Britain for hundreds of years. And because Britain not only wanted the land of France, but also wanted to be the father of France, so there was the culmination of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France.
At that time, on the European continent, imperial power and religious power were not at odds, and France, which was closely integrated, had always been the "dog" of the imperial power representing the Holy Roman Empire, so although Britain had little interest in the imperial power struggle on the European continent, because of France, the two fathers could not help but wrestle together.
After the advent of the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, Britain, as an island nation, developed a strong naval power because of the convenience of going to sea on all sides, and successively defeated Spain and the Netherlands to become the new maritime hegemon. The fierce colonial expansion also gave birth to the bourgeois revolution and the industrial revolution, ensuring the strong influence of the "empire that never sets".
In contrast, after the holy Roman Empire flourished and declined, the German land states were lined with states and fought endlessly against each other. What is even more frightening is the "Thirty Years' War" from 1618 to 1648, after a protracted battle with the great powers such as Britain, France and Russia, the Holy Roman Empire allied with Spain and other countries suffered heavy losses, and the Germanic states lost nearly 40% of adult men, and since then the Holy Roman Empire has gradually withered away, and Germany has been continuously ravaged until Prussia is unified.
Although after the "Thirty Years' War", The united Kingdom and the fragmented Germany had close cooperation in opposing the Napoleonic Empire, when the Napoleonic Empire fell to the bottom, the close relationship between the two countries disappeared.
The European Revolution of 1848 once again left the continent in disarray, but indirectly promoted the unification of Germany and Italy.
In 1871, under the leadership of Bismarck, the Prussian "iron-blooded chancellor", Prussia pushed left and right, locking in the victory of German unification through three wars.
Since before the reunification of Germany, the German states have begun the industrial revolution and have the motivation to break down market barriers, so when Germany achieved political unification, Germany quickly became an important birthplace of the second industrial revolution, and the comprehensive national strength was even more prominent, and soon surpassed Britain to become the first in Europe.
The reunification and rise of Germany has made Britain anxious like ants on a hot pot, after all, Germany's reunification not only made Britain lose the premise of "divide and rule", but Germany, which has risen thousands of miles by day, has also sprouted the psychology of competing with Britain.
The two world wars, to some extent, were due to the imbalance of imperialist resources between each other, and the confrontation and competition between Britain and Germany, as sea powers and land powers, traditional empires and emerging empires, were extreme examples of imperialist contradictions.
However, neither Germany nor Britain could have imagined that their incompatibility would eventually make a wedding dress for the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union. Although Britain did not, like Germany, which was defeated twice, its land area became more and more small. However, due to the violent impact of the two world wars on national strength, Britain lost almost all overseas colonies and had to return to the British Isles in an attempt to make a comeback.
However, the United States and the Soviet Union could make the Anglo-German struggle "lose-lose", and it was bound to make the contradictions between the two countries continue to continue, so Britain was still Germany's old enemy.
After the end of World War II, in order to control Western Europe and prevent Western Europe from being occupied by Soviet influence, the United States introduced the "Marshall Plan" relief in 1947, from which both Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany benefited.
After receiving the benefits of the United States, Western European countries also felt unprecedented great pressure, after all, "there is no free lunch under the sky", the United States is so generous, the purpose is nothing more than to control the economy of Western Europe. Therefore, in order to avoid becoming an economic colony of the United States, the countries of Western Europe are determined to put aside their historical grievances and win the historical opportunity of making a comeback by "hugging the group for warmth".
Guided by this idea, the "European Coal and Steel Community" was established in 1951.
Because the Federal Republic of Germany has a strong economic strength, although European integration is a stage play between Germany and France, Germany basically has a hundred appeals and is the real EU main force.
As a traditional colonial empire, Britain and France were very dissatisfied with the arrangement of passive recruitment, especially France, which repeatedly said that it could still "be confident that in two hundred years of life, it would hit the water for three thousand miles", which eventually led to the defeat of Britain and France in the Suez Canal crisis.
After the Suez Canal crisis, France accelerated its efforts to "warm up" with western European countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany, and since then, The European integration led by Germany and France has continued to create miracles.
And Britain, knowing that it was dug by the hands of the United States and the Soviet Union, still insisted on colluding with the United States. After all, the American continent where the United States is located is essentially the large British Isles, and the United States basically inherits the policy of differentiation and disintegration of Britain as a sea power, which has a high resonance with Britain. More importantly, the United States, as a former British colony, maintained a disconnected relationship with Britain.
Therefore, it is not unusual for the United Kingdom and the United States to get closer and closer, and the United Kingdom has also fallen under the jeans of the United States, completing the dramatic transformation from "American Uncle" to "American Grand GrandChild".
Because of the close relationship with the United States, the United Kingdom scorned the German-French-led European integration.
But the problem is that Britain's loyalty to the United States is unquestionable, and the feedback from the United States to Britain makes Britain cry in the toilet, in addition to ruthlessly taking away Britain's financial center status and dismembering the huge "sun never sets empire", the United States' "arrangement" for Britain can be described as comprehensive and well-designed.
The closer it got to the United States, the more exploited it became, and the wounded Britain was determined to look back and find an honest man, the European Community, to take over.
In the face of Britain's change of heart, de Gaulle repeatedly said: "Where you come from, you will go back to where you go". De Gaulle was angry. In addition to the historical law of "yesterday you ignored me, today I let you climb high", the more important factor is that although Britain was completely beaten back to its original form in World War II, it still has a decisive position and strength.
Although France is also a veritable western European power, it is beyond the reach of Britain in terms of national strength and international influence. So, once Britain, which is also one of the permanent members of the Security Council, joins in, how will France call the storm within the European Community in the future?
Of course, for practical reasons, France also has reason to doubt whether Britain is a "Trojan horse" planted by the United States in the European Community. So although Britain has repeatedly said that it will mingle with the European Community "regardless of the past", France only wants Britain to get out of the egg immediately.
Fortunately, Britain is in a dilemma, Germany appeared at the side in time, as the leading goose of the European Community, Germany believes that no matter how strong the economy is, it will not be stronger than itself, and the british accession will only make the European Community more powerful, and the main purpose of the European Community is to attract more European countries to conspire together.
Moreover, instead of leaving Britain to make trouble on the side, it was better to pull in as a stepping stone, and it could also make a bondage for France, so at the insistence of Germany, coupled with the sudden change in French politics, Britain finally got what it wanted.
It turns out that this is the most correct judgment made by Germany as the leader of European integration, and it is also the judgment that makes Germany regret its intestines.
Because after the arrival of britain, although it greatly enriched the wallet of the European Community, it also caused many incompatible troubles, such as not accepting refugees and rejecting the euro, so that Germany's plot layout has repeatedly become a fantasy.
What is even more frightening is that although they are on the same roof and form partners for common prosperity, the spirit of Britain's "continental churning stick" has been passed down from generation to generation, especially in 1989, when the upheavals in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Britain frantically connected within the European Community, vowing to form an "anti-German alliance" against German reunification, which once put Germany in a precarious situation.
For Britain, European integration is not conducive to its own muddy waters, so when European integration began, Britain would be so resistant, and finally join the European Community to some extent, it was forced to be disabled by the United States.
Therefore, if it can, European integration is best to look at each other, and Germany is better to keep east and west side by side, so European integration can only be talk.
From The German point of view, European integration is not only the right move to survive in the gap between the United States and the Soviet Union, but also an inevitable experience for Germany to achieve the goal of harmonizing Europe on the curve.
Therefore, Germany should not only be unified, but also continue to expand, preferably to include the whole of Europe. Under the guidance of this idea, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Germany took advantage of the historical opportunity of the formation of a power vacuum in Eastern Europe to launch a huge "EASTward expansion of the European Union", which greatly expanded the strength and influence of the European Union.
However, compared with the old members of Western Europe, the economic level of Eastern European countries is far from the same, and their accession has caused Western European countries to lose a lot of welfare in an instant, so the contradiction between East and West has suddenly arisen, and more and more serious internal problems have erupted within the EU.
Moreover, because the "EASTward Expansion of the European Union" basically included the satellite countries and even member countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia showed strong resistance and intensified the incompatibility between Russia and the European Union.
More importantly, because of Russia's anger, the Eastern European countries that cannot count on European military power have become the little brother of the United States politically while economically serving the EU.
After the end of the Cold War, the United States has not been as attitudeary to the Eu as before, and even wants to strike at the EU in all directions. Under such circumstances, the new members of Eastern Europe have essentially become undercover agents installed by the United States within the EUROPEAN Union, and they want the EU to take care of themselves and only create the anxiety of the "Russian threat theory".
Therefore, the post-Cold War EU, under the pressure of the United States, is facing more and more serious crises, such as the Kosovo War in 1999, the Greek debt crisis in 2009, the Crimean crisis in 2014 and the refugee crisis in 2015, ensuring that the EU is exhausted and powerless.
Brexit is the highlight of the US arrangement for the EU.
From today's point of view, the UK's life in the EU is not going well, so it is not surprising that it has a good reunion with the EU. After all, no one can tolerate the unfair treatment of not making ends meet for many years, which is important but has no influence.
A very important reason why Britain is so determined is that the United States "changed its mind", which made Britain feel the atmosphere of acknowledging its ancestors.
In order to strike at the European Union after the Cold War, the United States has constantly emphasized the "Russian threat theory" and increased the EU's loyalty to the United States. But the problem is that precisely because of the aggressiveness of the Soviet era, despite the lack of military autonomy, the EU still has a small psychology of strengthening cooperation with Russia through energy trade.
Therefore, the United States needs a "catfish" that makes it difficult for the EU to form a joint force against the United States, and the United Kingdom is undoubtedly the best tool. After all, the United Kingdom originally did not want to see the integration of Europe, and now that the United States has contributed money, what reason does the United Kingdom have not to jump up and down around the EU and go forward and follow?
So, the core of the Eu is in Germany, and Germany's biggest enemy is Britain. After all, to some extent, the two world wars have deprived Germany of the possibility of being a world power, and the only countries that can die with the United States can only be Said to be China and Russia, even the entire European Union is not worth mentioning.
Therefore, in the acres and thirds of Europe, Britain has always been an unavoidable but painful country in Germany.
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