This is the question you weren't asked (but answered anyway). Who is demonstrably and by far the greater menace to the survival of the West?
Putin is more unique. Merkel could be replaced by any of 1000 other people with similar views. Regardless of how toxic those views are, she is effect not cause.
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I'm treating both names as shorthand for regimes (which is the common op. ed. usage).
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I'd like to emphasize that Merkel is very much effect, not cause. However, it is clear that the cause of which Merkel is an effect is far more destructive than any cause of which Putin is an effect.
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Merkel singelhandedly sparked off the worst demographic disaster in European history, the effects of which we haven’t even begun to feel, and it’s been pretty hellish already.
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I dispute that it was "single-handed", as opposed to reflecting the consensus of German elites (what political theory would call the "selectorate"). Putin is not unique either, quite possibly another strong nationalist kleptocrat would have arose, I just think he's more unique.
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She is Chancellor and the blame falls to her. This childless, middle-aged Stasi accelerated the flow of biogarbage in a fit of madness.
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"Blame" and "how different would history be if she were never born" are two different things. You are thinking with your fist instead of your brain. Moral blame does not equate to historical causality, and changing the world requires getting historical causality right.
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the danger precisely imo. putin will be dead in ~30years while merkel has an infinite replacement
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