The new leader of Germany, after months of negotiations
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:11 am
It was the critical Franco-British naval battle at the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1781, where a French fleet prevailed, allowing it to provide cover for General George Washington’s army as it surrounded, bombarded and forced the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis’ army at Yorktown.
But if the British are out of the EU, and the French are distant from their NATO allies, Germany yesterday organized an election, where, for the first time in its history, the Christian Democratic Union of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel were reduced to a quarter of the national votes.
could be the leader of the Social Democrats, together with the Greens. But even this government may not be concocted by Christmas.
Neither candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party has the stature of Merkel, who has been both leader of Germany for the past decade and a half, but also de facto leader of Europe.
And consider the current state of NATO, once celebrated as the most phone number library successful alliance in history for deterring any Soviet invasion of Europe from NATO throughout the Cold War.
In 2001, citing Article V that an attack on one was an attack on all, NATO joined the Americans in their dive into Afghanistan to deal with the perpetrators of 9/11.
In August, 20 years later, all of our NATO allies withdrew as the Afghan army collapsed and disappeared and the Afghan regime collapsed. Our NATO allies have thus shared the ignominy of the American retreat and defeat.
But if the British are out of the EU, and the French are distant from their NATO allies, Germany yesterday organized an election, where, for the first time in its history, the Christian Democratic Union of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel were reduced to a quarter of the national votes.
could be the leader of the Social Democrats, together with the Greens. But even this government may not be concocted by Christmas.
Neither candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party has the stature of Merkel, who has been both leader of Germany for the past decade and a half, but also de facto leader of Europe.
And consider the current state of NATO, once celebrated as the most phone number library successful alliance in history for deterring any Soviet invasion of Europe from NATO throughout the Cold War.
In 2001, citing Article V that an attack on one was an attack on all, NATO joined the Americans in their dive into Afghanistan to deal with the perpetrators of 9/11.
In August, 20 years later, all of our NATO allies withdrew as the Afghan army collapsed and disappeared and the Afghan regime collapsed. Our NATO allies have thus shared the ignominy of the American retreat and defeat.