Harp
I'll Lock Up
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Schmidt always maintained his central view. But from the mouth of a man who opted for the deployment of nukes in Germany directed against the East, he was not visionary enough. Kohl was an opportunist. Merkel - as much as she is critizized - will maybe one day be looked at as the first real "european" german chancellor with a sure instinct for the interests of a greater....
Merkel's instinct for continental Europe is under doubt, of course, and her transatlantic reputation as
pragmatic harmed, but she has made her mark. Schmidt was a man for, and, of his time, a centrist
pragmatic chancellor who helped lay foundation for the later century.
Und Ich vermisse die schonen Frauen von Grafenwoehr.
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