John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY DANIEL LAZARRE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“With Merkel's Backing Putin Could Save the Iran Deal
“He can't do it alone and China, France and the UK won't be much help. That leaves Frau Merkel”
Well done analysis of the situation. Not sure about every detail, but overall well worth reading.
Chancellor Merkel, I fear, has a lot of residual resentments from growing up in East Germany.
And, at least when someone she likes has power in America, she is pro-American, although she well knows how they have hurt her with everything from spying on her private phone to creating all those desperate refugees with their idiotic bombing and turmoil all over the Middle East.
Hard to see her make much of a stand about anything like this, although I would love it if she did.
A turn for her would be wonderful for Europe's future too.
It really needs to start moving in steps to de-couple itself from the US. There is no long-term future in being close-to-subservient to an increasingly belligerent and arrogant American state.
Germany and the best part of Europe definitely have the ability to become a competitive force in the world, equal or superior to the US.
And Germany and Russia have always been a marriage made in heaven, as a look at a map tells you. That has been a concept in many minds for a century or more.
And American awareness of the fact has influenced Washington for decades to try killing sensible economic links like sales of Russian natural gas. "F--k Europe" as a much-loved American State Department Neocon official said not very long ago.
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Response to a comment, “Beware......Does Germany really have `clout` with Israel or is it the exact opposite?”
Good point. German guilt gets played upon tremendously by folks like Netanyahu.
Although, there are many little things at work here, too. Many Jews and Israelis living in Germany find the life so economically superior - the prices of goods and housing plus the range of work opportunities - to what they had in Israel that eventually a new consensus in attitudes could emerge.
Germany ain't the same folks as three-quarters of a century ago, and Israel very much has demonstrated it is anything but the Promise Land.
You can only live in ancient myths for so long.
