Iran vs. Israel: We should venify verbally – the situation in the morning

Love Readers, dear reader,

The morally superior instructions for use, not to measure a person in his words, but to measure his deeds “should be familiar.

I want to contradict. No more ending with this “he doesn’t do anything, he only barks” plattitue. Because in the end there are always supposedly negligible words that make a mutual against each other. Especially in oversensitive times like this, since the nerves are already bare in factory settings.

You have probably already had the experience of it, like a wrong word, at the wrong time, in the wrong tone an avalanche that changes everything, buries the friendships and relationships among themselves. The principle does not change the further you zoom in. Only the use is greater, the consequences are more devastating. If the president of the USA The “total” victory over another country demands that the Chancellor kill with “dirty work” abtut, Israel’s head of government speaks of his people, “which rises like a lion” and Iran’s top leader threatens with “extinguishing”, then in doubt that says well more than 1000 pictures.

Even if we have long since been oversaturated in the Trump era of the once unspeakable, the words of the decision -makers belong on the gold scales. To tear a deep wound, it just needs that: a word. To heal, however, many need many. Many many. And there is not much to do.

The new issue of the “5-minute talk” is also about the Chancellor’s choice of words that is at least once discussed. If you mean well with Merz, you could now modernize his “dirty work” quote: “You only say what everyone thinks!” But: is that really? And even if: would that be so smart?

Let’s make a thought experiment.

I just wanted to write honestly: close your eyes. Short coffee break.

So. Imagine a grandfather. Not necessarily your own, rather a kind of ideal symbol. What do you see? A white -bearded, pleasantly wrinkled man with a light abdominal base and deep salmon wrinkles? Who flows into the creaking rocking chair of his veranda in the warm evening sun? The most dozen grandchildren tells a story from a country before your time for the dozenest time?

Nice for you. I see Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin chief spoke to international reporters on the sidelines of the Economic Forum in St. Petersburg for the first time. That is now fluent in Chinese. Grandpa is proud.

It’s a good thing that a 72-year-old child’s child has only the Russian news agency TASS (really). But I can imagine this ice-cold KGB veteran at the negotiating table than in the rocking chair.

It is known that two daughters emerged from his three decades of marriage to the German teacher Ljudmila. However, there are numerous legends that are presumably the imperator.

When I say that I am happy about feedback, of course I mean: about praise.

Like many, perhaps like most journalists, I almost openly give myself open to criticism, but in truth in truth, every time someone doubts my skills. Sympathetic, right?

However, there is a shortcoming that I definitely don’t let myself be attested and I don’t like to think about myself either: that I am stingy. Avoiding this turns out to be a cultural problem here in Seoul.

Because: In South Korea you don’t tip.

Not because Pfennigfuchserei is part of the local leading culture. Too much figures are simply rude.

In tourist areas, the Koreans are gradually considering us inflexible Wessis and accept the guest tenth – but only so that we feel better. It remains a baddo. As an employee of a well-known café in Seoul two years ago, a tip box on the counter ,.

Honestly: Those who give tips in truth do not want to know the performance of the waiter, but above all their own generosity recognized. It is extremely difficult for me to defend myself against this reflex. Leaving a restaurant centenewly feels a bit like stealing.

I have actually been able to acknowledge bad service with bad tips for a long time. Of course, this rarely works: the fear of the evil eye is usually greater than the outrage over the forgotten order.

I wish you a great day – Annyeonghi Gyeseyo!