{"id":27386,"date":"2025-01-17T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=27386"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:38:17","slug":"from-realpolitik-to-empty-chair-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/europe-crisis\/from-realpolitik-to-empty-chair-politics","title":{"rendered":"From Realpolitik to Empty Chair Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=1170%2C658&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?w=1900&amp;ssl=1 1900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=1140%2C641&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Allemagne.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>publicly and ostentatiously<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What caused this volte-face?<\/p>\n<p>Scholz rejected a \u20ac3 billion aid package for Ukraine, concocted by Baerbock and Boris Pistorius, the Defense Minister.<\/p>\n<p>I myself attended meetings in Germany where some participants simply left the room as soon as the topic being discussed didn\u2019t suit them, or they no longer liked the direction the debates were taking.<\/p>\n<p>A social behavior now quite common in what was once the country of Kant and de Goethe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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 \u20ac3 billion aid package for Ukraine, concocted by Baerbock and Boris Pistorius, the Defense Minister. I myself attended meetings&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[648942734,648942583,648942756,648941264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-credibility","category-europe-crisis","category-europe-vulnerability","category-european-union"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From Realpolitik to Empty Chair Politics - Michel Santi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/europe-crisis\/from-realpolitik-to-empty-chair-politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Realpolitik to Empty Chair Politics - Michel Santi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Tensions Between Scholz and His Foreign Minister Baerbock at Breaking Point. 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