CAVOKMar 4

Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office

https://lemmy.world/post/43834299

Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office - Lemmy.World

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Show threadFoniMar 4
As a Spaniard (the country he threatened) I have to say that this is really disappointing. Not only Germany continues to accept any violation of Israel’s international law and no longer has the courage to tell the USA what it told it during the Iraq war. Now they don’t even want to plant him towards abuse by threatening a friend. I expected much more from Germany
Show threadJimbel

I the Iraq war Germany had a center left Chancellor. Now Germany has a center right Chancellor, who was fishing far right voters in his campaign. So it was expectable.

Chancellor Merz speech at the Munich Sicherheitskonferenz however was different from this.

Mar 4 at 7:49amWeb
Show threadFoniMar 4
Merkel was also center-right and I can’t imagine her staying silent about this. The problem is not ideological location, it is human decency
Show threadtrollercoasterMar 4
Schröder was anything but center-left. He did transform the SPD from a center left working class party into a center right neoliberal copy of the CDU.