From Realpolitik to Empty Chair Politics
Tensions Between Scholz and His Foreign Minister Baerbock at Breaking Point. She turned her back on him without even responding to him, and did so publicly and ostentatiously.
What caused this volte-face?
Scholz rejected a €3 billion aid package for Ukraine, concocted by Baerbock and Boris Pistorius, the Defense Minister.
I myself attended meetings in Germany where some participants simply left the room as soon as the topic being discussed didn’t suit them, or they no longer liked the direction the debates were taking.
A social behavior now quite common in what was once the country of Kant and de Goethe.
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