Germans can no longer sell cars. So, they will build tanks. But tanks last for decades and consumers don't buy them anyway. That's why Military Keynesianism doesn't work, unless you start one war after the other US-style. Ergo, only fools welcome German Military Keynesianism. - ThreadSky

yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Germans can no longer sell cars. So, they will build tanks. But tanks last for decades and consumers don't buy them anyway. That's why Military Keynesianism doesn't work, unless you start one war after the other US-style. Ergo, only fools welcome German Military Keynesianism.

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darthwaiter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Isn't that chief Greek thief spitting at his debtors? You can fuck right off to your Russian pimp, cunt.

g-a-r-y.bsky.social•8 days ago

Lest we forget, the warmonger Putin invading Ukraine has created these conditions.

maumagnificat.bsky.social•8 days ago

Vladimir Putin, Paul Manafort, Jeffrey Sachs ("Harvard Boys do Russia"), and..Gorbachev who sold out Soviet Union to a New Age retreat in Northern California. The first signs came when Gorbachev allowed the Unification Church ("Moonies") to hold events in Russia. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-famed-new-age-retreat-center-helped-end-the-cold-war

churchillsarrow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Tell you what, complacent nonsense is a luxury Europe can no longer afford. Your opinion is noted, but unless you're focused on the actual threat then you're not a priority in the debate right now.

balupuppy.bsky.social•6 days ago

🚨🤡🚨☝️

roybennett.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is nonsense.

zalasewo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Since when are tankies against tanks?

snapspikazo.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is the sort of idealistic guff you expect from teenagers. Varoufakis is nothing but a Greek George Galloway.

kennywell.bsky.social•7 days ago

Whose payroll are you on? That first sentence is absolute bullshit.

louisevans.bsky.social•6 days ago

Interesting hypothesis with some strong arguments! Any other changing circumstances that might be motivating German rearmament?

platoniano.bsky.social•8 days ago

Eso es lo que da miedo, que las armas no se guardan para siempre en un almacén y así no te atacan y las empresas armamentísticas van a querer ganar más cada año

catador.bsky.social•7 days ago

Do not be afraid. Yes, tanks last a long time, but you do not have to keep building them if they are not in battle. What is needed is the maintenance so they can be ready when needed or if they are needed. When they are no longer needed, you simply melt them down and start over.

Economics rule

calebeu8.bsky.social•8 days ago

So why does greece has an army against its neighbor türkeye? Both nato. In times of need, you peel patatoes with an axe.

andystoin.bsky.social•7 days ago

Or, just perhaps, they are manufacturing tanks to bolster German defence capabilities against a fascist, imperialist aggressor, that once had defacto control of the East of their country

(no prizes for guessing who 😉)

sithan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Your demonstration seems correct, but you forgot something: German Military Keynesianism is a variation of hardcore neoliberalism that replaced the mantra "die so the economy improves" with the slogan "get killed because the economy improves."

sithan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Was Keynes an economist of life or of the industrial financialization of death? That is not an irrelevant question, I suppose.

bobborsley.bsky.social•7 days ago

Russian tanks haven’t been lasting so long in recent times.

alpinemigrant.bsky.social•7 days ago

Still grifting, Yanis?

adrianhallam.bsky.social•7 days ago

This would make perfect sense, in a world where Russia didn't exist, or didn't display a consistent pattern of aggressive expansionism.

tippingpoint24.bsky.social•7 days ago

And those who don't want to live under Putin.
Keynesianism is a red herring.

katiecannon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wish you’d stick with Techno Feudalism

Your crazy idea that Europe doesn’t need an independent means of protecting itself is just silly

thinkovation.com•7 days ago

Are you ok, Hun?

flere-imsaho.circumstances.run•3 days ago

still pretending you're common people, eh yanis?

larisaios.bsky.social•4 days ago

The hulls of a tank may last for decades, the rest of the tank (engine, electronics etc.) needs frequent servicing and regular modernization. It's a very lucrative market.

You know nothing Jon Snow.

slavagondor.bsky.social•7 days ago

You really are a hopeless case aren't you?

orius.bsky.social•4 days ago

Always was. Never understood why he was given much credence.

rjfortunato.bsky.social•7 days ago

Someone loves their rubles.

peytonfarquhar.bsky.social•7 days ago

I'll still take Military Keynesianism over being forced into Putin's mafia state after the diseased monkeys of his army have blasted and raped their way through my town.

onbluskysku.bsky.social•7 days ago

What if the tank is meant to be a tank and not a jobs program

jonconnorton.com•7 days ago

“Oh no! Our tanks will last for years. This is bad for the economy and only good for the people inside it.”

thesecretbuyer.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yanis, I don't know if you've been checking the news much but there's currently a pretty good market for Tanks...

I don't think selling weapons is gonna be a problem.

Regardless, Military Keynesiasm works because Keynesiasm works.

aramshabanian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Guy who posts about Palestinians being unlawfully detained but is excited to see it happen to Ukrainians https://bsky.app/profile/yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social/post/3ljzlch6ews24

coldsoresteve.bsky.social•7 days ago

Christ! Imagine if they permafuck a European economy! What would that be like?!

Seriously, what was that like?

willm1966.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hang in there sisters !

quellist1.bsky.social•7 days ago

You colossal fucking moron.

But no, I get it, I get it - you for one welcome our murdering, raping, child-abducting ethno-ultranationalist Russian overlords. 🤪

Golf clap.

domruston.bsky.social•7 days ago

Silly. Billy.

garethcolwell.org•7 days ago

oldhoundderby.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tanks don’t last for decades if you need to use them. All the Russians, because those stupid bastards have thrown away 10000 of them…

oldhoundderby.bsky.social•6 days ago

*Ask the Russians

evilfred.bsky.social•6 days ago

sometimes tanks get destroyed by bad guys and then new ones need to get purchased to replace them.

bobreeduk.bsky.social•7 days ago

How good is the economy of an occupied country?

sembtext.bsky.social•7 days ago

Please don't be a quisling for Russia. Try to support democracy instead.

dickp.bsky.social•7 days ago

You're really not as clever as you think you are, are you?

yamaking666.bsky.social•7 days ago

jumpers4goalposts1.bsky.social•7 days ago

Erm what?

admiralbooth.bsky.social•7 days ago

Jesus, you’re a busted flush.

spherical-cow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Germany is buying tanks first and foremost because they think they might need them. I would think the reasons why would be obvious. The Keynesian effects of millitary spending, which you seem to be willfully misunderstanding, simply offset some of the costs.

spherical-cow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Workers in arms plants spend their salaries on consumer goods, thus stimulating demand, and while consumers don't buy tanks, a tank factory isn't very different from a tractor factory or truck factory.

spherical-cow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Much of the capital and R&D investment made by the defese industry has benefits in the production of consumer goods.

orius.bsky.social•4 days ago

Besides, military equipment that isn't mothballed and sitting in storage will still need a massive supply chain and maintenance infrastructure which will continuously generate money. He doesn't know shit aside from shallow populist economics with no holistic analysis. Common useful idiot to enemies

jyri.synapsinappi.fi•7 days ago

Sometimes building tanks is the answer.

nyehughes.bsky.social•7 days ago

Germans can no longer sell tanks. So, they will build cars. But cars last for decades and governments don't buy them anyway. That's why consumer Keynesianism doesn't work, unless you crash one car after the other US-style. Ergo, only fools welcome German consumer Keynesianism.

invitedlate.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm pretty sure the tanks are for fighting, this isn't digging a ditch and filling it back up.

kopitekai.bsky.social•7 days ago

The fact that you made it to the top professionally should give hope to all of us.

So much nonsense in a few sentences.

Quite impressive in a depressing kind of way.

sootysayer.bsky.social•7 days ago

who started the war again? it wasn't Germany. no war, no tanks. but we have war, so we will have tanks

werkoderko.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah, we love to build tanks noone buys. It's our national hobby. That's why practically every village has a rusting Leopard II in the village square or as an attraction in the playground because we could only sell it to *checks notes* 25 other nations...

topper.falkon.org.uk•7 days ago

Also I'm pretty sure Germany still makes cars?

werkoderko.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah, one or two...

pipkazan.bsky.social•7 days ago

These tanks are good, though, right? These wars are good, yeah?

testburntemp.bsky.social•8 days ago

Tanks are bigger than cars, therefore cooler.

horseknuckler.bsky.social•7 days ago

Are you having a stroke?

5gman.bsky.social•8 days ago

Besides, why would you pay for tanks when it's cheaper to provide Russian language courses to everyone?

shakeystephens.bsky.social•7 days ago

You fucking idiot

nsarbutts.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sell the front door to your house, it's not making you any money is it? Only fools would waste money on doors and locks.

jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s better than no Keynesianism at all. Also, I don’t think the Baltics, or Poland, are big fans of Dugin’s ‘Russian World’. It’s a weird take for someone so coherent in other areas.

sabrathan.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's unfortunately part of some of the Greek left's deeply embedded love for all things communist and thereby Russian. Bernie displayed some of that too, but came around once he realized some historical pressure applied by the US on Russia several decades ago does not justify Russian war crimes.

jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social•7 days ago

The Spanish left have a reflexive ‘no NATO’ stance that defies analysis.

sabrathan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Probably born out of the same anti-American stance in Greece, which was born out of things like the invasion of Iraq and the Balkan fiasco. But one can oppose an organization's terrible acts and still support their good and legitimate ones (defence is really what NATO should be about, after all).

nordiceuropean.bsky.social•7 days ago

Is that what your experience in tanking the Greek economy is telling you?

nofixedagenda.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wtf? He was finance minister in 2015. The debt crisis started in 2010.

sabrathan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yannis was actually disregarded by the PM at the time. The whole referendum thing, you know. A lot of us thought that things may have actually gone down less horribly if we had followed through Varoufakis' plan.

That said, yes to tanks and guns and everything needed to defend ourselves ASAP.

nordiceuropean.bsky.social•7 days ago

A politician and a leader should be able to sell his plans to their peers. Varoufakis is a pundit masquerading as a leader. And he's not even a good foreign policy pundit.

5gman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Capital controls, bank closures and near collapse of the economy all happened on his watch.

nofixedagenda.bsky.social•7 days ago

He had been relying on Greeks voting to leave the EU to force the creditors hand and get better repayment terms. His government didn’t create the debt, he just over promised on what he could do 5 years after the debt crisis started.

5gman.bsky.social•7 days ago

And that's precisely the problem. Gambling the country's future based on an unrealistic strategy. His tactics just led to economic chaos and a harsher bailout.