Chancellor Scholz is in the US....mostly to meet with President Biden but he also gave a interview opportunity to Jake Trapper of CNN.
Number one question? More or less...'isn't Germany more of an ally of Russia....than of the Ukraine'.
If you'd measure blood pressure....I would imagine that Scholz jumped a good ten points in five seconds.
Asking that question in Germany, by ARD or ZDF (the two public TV networks)? It would have never happened as Merkel was Chancellor and I'm fifty-percent in the belief that even asking Scholz this question would have been a big no-no.
The response given by Scholz....mostly 'no' (they'd pumped in two-billion Euro to 'help' the Ukraine in the past couple of years).
The thing is....if you walked into a German pub...brought up politics chatter and ask regular people on their belief of SPD/Green parties in this type of mess.....the majority would have said that there's some weird kabuki-dance that various German politicians do (some with the CDU, but most with the Greens and SPD).....where there's always a love-hate Russia attitude going on.
New stuff? No.....you can go back to the 1950s to see certain elements of this kabuki-dance, more so in the 1960s, and 1970s.
Would regular Germans ask a Jake Trapper question like this? I think the news journalists of Germany are there to ensure regular people aren't in the question department, and that hurtful questions like this never get uttered.
Will this question even be uttered tonight on the 8:00 PM news? No.....but at some point in the week, via the public forum TV shows.....some person is going to describe the CNN interview, and various people will dance around the topic....is the SPD position taken.....more or less.....to just accept the Russian position and let the sole act here to stall the Nord Stream II pipeline for a year?
For me personally? I'm just shocked that CNN got all of the sudden blunt and asked a 4-star question. I wish they'd do this more often.
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