Q-an-A

 1.  Why won't the CDU-CSU partner in a coalition with the AfD Party?

Basically....about 50-percent (minimum) of the CDU-CSU typical voters, would walk out and quit the party....immediately.    It'll never happen.

2.  What's the real slam against Chancellor Merz?

Germany is in a fairly negative economic situation, and as much as Merz talks about 'change'....it's awful slow in arriving. I'm not saying anyone with the SPD or  Greens would do better....just that folks are expecting a lot out of Merz.

3.  How safe do I feel around urbanized areas (like Mainz, Wiesbaden, or Frankfurt)?

I don't have a problem in tram or subway travel....or walking around in daylight hours.  If you said to walk around the Frankfurt train station or the zone outside of the station....after dark, yeah....I'd probably prefer not to take that risk. I would not have said that in 1978.

Even in Wiesbaden....this street from the station to mid-town....after dark....I'd tell you to take the bus....don't walk (especially after 10 PM).

4. How many clan-versus-clan (crime-gangs) revenge hit-jobs occur in Germany yearly?

It's near impossible to have a national graphic/number on this topic.  If you follow urban news (like Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin)....I probably notice around a revenge situation about every three months, and would guess nationally....at least one or two monthly occur.  

It's just that one gang is out to hit on a 2nd gang...for something that occurred to screw up relations.

5.  The best true story on murder in Germany.....yet never made into a movie-script?

Phantom-killer episode from late 1990s to mid-2000s.  It would make a 5-star movie....but would embarrass the police to  the 9th-degree.

6.  This Putin 'Phase 0' war-plan against Europe BS?

It's like a fake-story where you announce 1,000 wolves are to be released possibly in central Germany....from some plan of the environmentalists.

All of the sudden....people  get excited, but no one can cite where the 1,000 will come from, or who will release them?

At best....even if the Ukraine-Russia war ended this week....to rebuild  and be a threat against Europe....Russia would likely require three decades of positive numbers on birth, and a ton of new tanks built.

On the positive side....some German bunker companies will emerge and get rich building tens of thousands of bunkers across Germany.