Are We Having A Middle East Policy Yet?
Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama’s Middle East policies have failed. “US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy is in ruins. Like no president before him, he tried...
View ArticlePrioritäten Setzen
You know, to prioritize? The refocusing of U.S. attention on Asia that marked Mr. Obama’s first term had already provoked much soul-searching among Germans about the relevance of the trans-Atlantic...
View ArticleWe Don’t Do Dirty Work
Yet again (this time not in Mali). German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle: “The deployment of German combat troops is not an option. And I have to mention just one more point. We Germans are highly...
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Titles
Wat denn nu (well which is it then)? Which of these two headlines is correct? “Germany offers help to Syria chemical mission” or “Germany supplied Syria with chemicals up until 2011?” Both are, you...
View ArticleGood Point
“While there are genuine pacifists in Germany,” as German President Joachim Gauck recently noted at the Munich Security Conference, “there are also people who use Germany’s guilt for its past as a...
View ArticleWhere’s Gazprom-Gerd When You Need Him?
Probably taking tea at the “dyed-in-the-wool democrat’s” dacha. When it comes to Russia’s unsolicited visit to Ukraine, German officials go out of their way to say that gas, money or jobs play...
View ArticleDiplomacy Is Everything
Just ask Donald Trump (after he gets off the phone with Australia). He and the new German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) ought to get along just fine. He’s coming for a visit to Washington...
View ArticlePromise?
Do you promise that “relations with the US will never be the same after Trump?” Because that would be great if you made sure that was the case, German Foreign Minister Gabriel (SPD). And I couldn’t...
View ArticleI Don’t Know How Much More Feminist Foreign Policy The Germans Can Take
Didn’t they just have, like, forty years or something of “feminist foreign policy” under Angela Merkel? And wasn’t Urusla von der Leyen a big German Exportschlager (top export) in the EU feminist...
View ArticleShouldn’t a Green be taking a sailboat anyway?
To Australia? I know. But she does seem to have a lot of time on her hands these days. ‘More than annoying’: German minister cancels Pacific trip after plane mishap – German Foreign Minister Annalena...
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