For the record.
Friedrich Merz mocking Trump as “humiliated” by Iran while admitting Germany cannot defend itself is the perfect summary of modern Europe.
A continent that outsourced its security to America now lectures America on weakness.
That is not strategic insight. It is welfare-state geopolitics. Classic European arrogance.
Germany wants the moral authority of independence, the comfort of U.S. protection, and the budgetary convenience of not paying for either.
Merz is living in the fantasy world Pax Americana created: criticize the hegemon, depend on the hegemon, and pretend dependency is sophistication.
If America is humiliated, Europe is naked. And if Germany cannot defend itself, Merz has no business sneering at the country that still does.
@J4Ystewart I got trapped in one of those very narrow tunnels where the turnstyles are when someone's ticket wasn't registering on the reader, most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Wtf were they thinking?
@J4Ystewart I got mine at 8:30 AM & AC/DC got on stage at 9:00 PM. There was about 80 people in front of me but how they organized the line into four separate lines actually put a lot of people in the back of the line ahead of me