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Yeah, that's true. Although, not by much. I remember that in 1990's there was still plenty of distrust towards them, as they were seen as nazis. Nobody wanted Germany to become strong. The 1990's began 45 yeqrsnafter WWII had ended, and while the trust had been almost recovered, it was still not intact. I'm not sure if it's even now: Germany is the biggest reason we didn't support Ukraine militarily as much as needed back in spring 2022. They wanted cheap gas and were ready to accept horrors in the name of political realism. It's hard at least for me to not see a connection between that cynicism and what the same cynicism led to in 1920's and 1930's.

Yeah, that's absolutely correct, I agree!

But, it won't return our trust towards USA. That will take decades, no matter what. Dethroning Trump is a good beginning. Or beginning of a beginning. But actual permanent changes would need to take place, amd I don't really see them 8n the horizon.

Oh, thanks for the heads-up! I edited the comment now. And know to be careful with this in the future!

There are legislative bodies that exist precisely for changing such laws. Make an exceptional law that is valid for only this one time use and then hire new judges, some of which are allowed to be among the ones fired.

So, basically one NATO member is saying that it will not honour its commitments if Spain ever gets attacked?

And maybe this means that all official documents will have to be delivered to the Spanish by some other NATO member state?

A suspension that suspenses nothing. Hooray.

That would decrease my trust. It would look like they are doing nothing to learn from their FAFO.

...and that time is about two generations. People reproduce at around age 25, so two generations are about 50 years.

I hope other countries will heed the warning.

Simple: refrain from doing any stupid shit for half a century. Any stupid shit will kick the timer backwards 70% of the elapsed time.

(There really is no other way)

The private owners of the line in question are the government of Denmark and the smaller towns around the city of Copenhagen.

Yeah, I hate it as well how the Finnish railways is organized. By it being a "Ltd." type of organization, it manages to incorporate the worst sides of both private ownership and public ownership in one. Almost any solution would be better than ours.

But it's still not private. Words have meanings and if we misuse them, we lose our ability to protect ourselves for example from actual privatization.

Ah, okay, so this route does not belong to Banedanmark, but to Hovedstadens Lokalbaner.

However, the web site of HL says:

Inden fusionen havde Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd overtaget statens aktier i privatbanerne, således at Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd ejer ca. 45% af aktierne i det nye selskab. Den øvrige aktiekapital ejes af amter og kommuner, som tidligere var aktionærer i de private baner.

^^ This means that all of HL belongs to government and municipalities. It also says that originally the routes had been largely privatized, but they were deprivatized in 2002.

Which you didn't do, though: https://uk.bane.dk/en/About-Banedanmark

The very first sentence there tells it's a governmental body under the Ministry of Transport. Unless Denmark has privatized its Ministry of Transport, it's not privatized.