When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure.
Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.
Well he already joked last year that D-day was "not a pleasant day" for the German chancellor, but I'm sure he'll come up with some new jokes this year.
To his credit the German chancellor Merz gave a great reply "Well in the long run, Mr President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship" but sadly Merz himself is collaborating with the German neonazi party
I mean
https://www.dw.com/en/afd-firewall-germany-political-consensus-explained/a-71457050
"The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) breached what has become known as the "AfD firewall" on Wednesday when party leader Friedrich Merz put forward a motion for strict immigration laws, which passed with the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) [and he was accused] of ending a decadeslong consensus in Germany "that there would be no cooperation between democratic parties and the extreme right"
Appearances can be different to reality. I don't know about the local level but in the European parliament, members of C.D.U. and C.S.U. were caught collaborating with A.F.D. and the extreme right parties from Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni using a secret WhatsApp group to coordinate and push thru laws that will deport refugees to so-called "return hubs" outside of the E.U. and who knows what else they agreed on
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