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Mölling: “US policy is like theater. With Trump in the leading role”
Trump’s back against Putin was expected, says political scientist Christian Mölling. It is all the more important that German politicians speak plain text. Just like Friedrich Merz in Lithuania.
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German politics is too hesitant to explain the seriousness of the security policy situation to their own citizens. This underlines Christian Mölling, Senior Advisor at the Brussels Think Tank Tank European Policy Center, given the commissioning of the Bundeswehr brigade “Lithuania” by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Thursday. “The protection of Vilnius is the protection of Berlin,” says the expert. It was good that Friedrich Merz had clearly pronounced this in Vilnius. But: “It would be much better if he would say that very clearly in Germany,” said Mölling in the latest edition of the star– s “Die Lage -International”.
“The fact that the security of the other countries in Europe is directly connected to our certainty” that the stationing of the Bundeswehr in Lithuania is “not only a question of solidarity, but our own security” – according to Mölling, German politicians have still not adequately imparted this in their own country. The concerns about the security, which is currently concerned with Germany’s immediate neighbors from Scandinavia to Romania, is not sufficiently understood in this country. “We want to listen to our partners more. At the same time, you have the impression that we are actually deaf,” said the political scientist.
Mölling: “Trump leads a monologue with himself”
Instead, with a view to the Ukraine conflict, there is still a wishful thinking about the possibility of a diplomatic solution, “according to the motto: I have a large cash register, there is diplomacy on it and I have not yet found the right key. The door may have no lock at all.”
The broad disappointment in Germany about the outcome of the negotiations in Turkey last week cannot understand security expert Mölling. “Nothing has changed on the interests of both sides.” The announcement by the US President to say goodbye to the United States in a mediator role instead of increasing the pressure on Russia as promised was also expected. “It is”, “said Mölling about Trump,” as the American president in a theater in which he himself plays the leading role: a kind of monologue with himself. “
Source: Stern
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