Robert Zubrin asks, "Are the Germans nuts?" Oogiook asks, "Who is Giuseppe Conte, really?" And Gabi Mitchell reports from Jerusalem on Biden's trip to the Middle East.
I get Mr. Zubrin's frustration, and polemics that please the people who agree with you can be fun and cathartic, but they're generally not a great way to shift debate. The difficult, frustrating and generally unappealing job of the public expert in a robust democracy is to provide options and to help make a persuasive case for the best ones.
Cosmo Globalist's appeal is that it brings info and thoughts that we might not otherwise come across. We see plenty everywhere about the extreme/fixed positions in German politics, but I'd be very interested to read a nuanced piece on what I suspect is a complex overlap of political issues for "ordinary" Germans - how they got here, what the key points of domestic politics are, how Germans group around these issues (e.g. by economic class? by geography?) and what the various political players can/are/will be doing about it.
German leaders are nuts. Beware of those notorious earthquakes and Tsunamis in Germany (sarcasm). Germany is probably the planet’s most qualified candidate to oversee safety of nuclear power. Merkel responded emotionally, not logically to Japanese nuclear disaster. Merkel also responded emotionally to the migrant crisis in the absence of a necessary European border/immigration infrastructure. I give Germany a break on the issue of arming Ukranians because that is involvement in war and an invitation to Russian retaliation. Not that Putin needs an invitation. I side morally with Ukraine autonomy. At home in USA, we also pretend that involvement in war (sending war machines to Ukraine) is not noticed by Putin.
The Germans used to be notorious for Realpolitik. It seems, however, that they've transitioned to Unwirkliche Politik: policy that hurts others while hurting Germany itself.
I get Mr. Zubrin's frustration, and polemics that please the people who agree with you can be fun and cathartic, but they're generally not a great way to shift debate. The difficult, frustrating and generally unappealing job of the public expert in a robust democracy is to provide options and to help make a persuasive case for the best ones.
Cosmo Globalist's appeal is that it brings info and thoughts that we might not otherwise come across. We see plenty everywhere about the extreme/fixed positions in German politics, but I'd be very interested to read a nuanced piece on what I suspect is a complex overlap of political issues for "ordinary" Germans - how they got here, what the key points of domestic politics are, how Germans group around these issues (e.g. by economic class? by geography?) and what the various political players can/are/will be doing about it.
German leaders are nuts. Beware of those notorious earthquakes and Tsunamis in Germany (sarcasm). Germany is probably the planet’s most qualified candidate to oversee safety of nuclear power. Merkel responded emotionally, not logically to Japanese nuclear disaster. Merkel also responded emotionally to the migrant crisis in the absence of a necessary European border/immigration infrastructure. I give Germany a break on the issue of arming Ukranians because that is involvement in war and an invitation to Russian retaliation. Not that Putin needs an invitation. I side morally with Ukraine autonomy. At home in USA, we also pretend that involvement in war (sending war machines to Ukraine) is not noticed by Putin.
The Germans used to be notorious for Realpolitik. It seems, however, that they've transitioned to Unwirkliche Politik: policy that hurts others while hurting Germany itself.