If you picked up the WELT newspaper yesterday, there was an excellent piece written by Nicholas Doll, entitled: "Germany, At The Limit".
So he goes down the list....war, flood, refugees, Covid, economic spiral, environmental catastrophic events, etc. He kinda suggests....in kind words, that the German governmental mechanism has hit it's operational barrier.
I'll be honest....up until this war period....I felt that Merkel-team was stumbling along and probably had been in a 'ditch' or two. The Scholz-team arrived and probably had some hopes there in January that Covid would lessen and 2022 would end up as a decent year. Sadly, they were wrong.
I think the article does highlight a lot of what the common working-class German is feeling. There's just an over-abundance of hyped-up news, and you really need to know when to turn the TV off, and chill out.
You also probably need to get a frame of mind that the German government or the EU itself....is not a 'Jesus-like' situation where things can be remedied or repaired.
It's a harsh reality of the world we live in.
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