I wanted to highlight what a blind spot this miserly attitude is giving the leadership so that we can better discuss their incentives. This line of thinking is making us into casualties of political entertainment, why should we humor their priorities at all? They're certainly not going to listen to us either way. I understand what you're saying better now, but I refuse to base my analysis of Germany's future off the premises of its current establishment. They're not even going to be around for it.

Germany and the rest of Europe is right next to fucking Africa it's not the moon what are you talking about arrogance for? Arrogance is ignoring it and treating it like a backwater unless you can extract resources & cheap labor from it. German engineers should be training people in Africa. Nobody denies their industry has a lot of skilled labor capacity lmao I mean Vietnam gives them some preference over Chinese high speed rail companies for a reason. It's to do Germany better than Germany themselves, like their neighbor has.

Let me make this as simple as peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or burger, or what have you, schnitzel? Schnitzel simple. Germany has big potential in green energy, electric vehicles, infamous auto sector. Namibia has a burgeoning green energy sector, looking to get into smaller-end electric vehicles (scooters & such are going to explode in many places much faster than electric cars, very exciting and a great prospect for sodium-ion as well), huge lithium mining projects, so it could have a phenomenal battery industry.

Why ignore the country, or settle for just stealing its lithium? Skulls... Smalltime crookery my dude. There is huge potential for mutual development in industries once the financial system that requires Africa to be poor is no longer Germany's priority. This would be dreaming, but the past decade has shown things can change pretty rapidly.