COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
This very gifted woman (a PhD in physics and she speaks
fluent Russian), who might have proved a great chancellor, has been close to an
unqualified disaster.
I just don't know how she could get so many things so wrong.
The migrants.
The Russians and Ukraine.
Dealing with the greatest thug on the continent, Erdogan,
paying him off in billions of Euros, ignoring his devilish role in destroying
Syria, ignoring his dirty schemes with stolen oil, ignoring the fact that his
troops shoot migrants at the border, ignoring his attacks on the press,
ignoring his assassinations of opponents, and ignoring his murderous treatment
of the Kurds.
And many of these matters are interrelated, so that action
on one or two might have prevented some others.
I strongly suspect very intense American pressure on her in
private.
But what a colossal disappointment she is, and I can only
hope she does poorly in elections.
