The former chancellor's memoir provides some crucial and previously undisclosed insights into Nord Stream, Putin, the Minsk agreements, her failure to to prevent war, and the US's role in all that
good article thomas.. thanks.... that media outlet unherd - very bizarre reader base.. i gather they are uk based mostly and love warmongering... clearly merkel wasn't enough of a warmonger for them... i get this from reading the comments to that article.. fortunately, i am unable to comment at unherd..
The comments section at that site is a fetid sewer of Russophobia, of rabid, wholly unhinged anti-communism. It's good Thomas can publish there, but clearly those nutcases are not his true audience. I rarely look at the comments under his posts there, but when I do I feel I need to take a shower afterward; the stench lingers long afterward.
Whatever ideological, moral, or hard-nosed realpolitik impulses she may have had, Angela Merkel seemed driven first and foremost by an overweening ambition to remain in power, and that mean opportunistically changing course to take the wind out of the sails of whatever opposition appeared, either within her party or without. This would explain why her successor Scholz is such a weak and ineffective leader, but also why Germany appears to adrift at this point and heading into what all indications suggest is structural decline. Merkel had no vision, took no big, much-needed decisions in terms of strategic direction. She went along to get along, for so long as she could remain in power. Her legacy has been utterly disastrous, not only for Germany but Europe as a whole. Thank you or reading that hefty tome so we don't have to.
good article thomas.. thanks.... that media outlet unherd - very bizarre reader base.. i gather they are uk based mostly and love warmongering... clearly merkel wasn't enough of a warmonger for them... i get this from reading the comments to that article.. fortunately, i am unable to comment at unherd..
The comments section at that site is a fetid sewer of Russophobia, of rabid, wholly unhinged anti-communism. It's good Thomas can publish there, but clearly those nutcases are not his true audience. I rarely look at the comments under his posts there, but when I do I feel I need to take a shower afterward; the stench lingers long afterward.
lol! we see it much the same...
LOL. Nothing to do with Putin's imperialist ambitions at all. 🤪
Whatever ideological, moral, or hard-nosed realpolitik impulses she may have had, Angela Merkel seemed driven first and foremost by an overweening ambition to remain in power, and that mean opportunistically changing course to take the wind out of the sails of whatever opposition appeared, either within her party or without. This would explain why her successor Scholz is such a weak and ineffective leader, but also why Germany appears to adrift at this point and heading into what all indications suggest is structural decline. Merkel had no vision, took no big, much-needed decisions in terms of strategic direction. She went along to get along, for so long as she could remain in power. Her legacy has been utterly disastrous, not only for Germany but Europe as a whole. Thank you or reading that hefty tome so we don't have to.
I read the full article. Great article, thank you.