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that's sarah wagenknecht, former leader of the left party, she split the party, made her own party named after herself and got too comfy with the AFD fascists.
She's a socially conservative "left adjacent" politician who'll gladly support Frontex drowning refugees in the mediterranean sea or work in a coalition government with the afd to do their "remigration" thingy.
she was like 16.000 votes off from having a seat in the parliament.
other than that: yea she's not a journalist. she's a former socialist politician who kinda fell off.
the only redeeming qualities she has: her stance on NATO with the caveat that she is a little too unapologetic about russia.
ACP(Deutschland Division)
How so? In the context of Russia's major geopolitical disputes with the West, they've been the aggrieved party in every instance I'm aware of.
I agree on that point. Germany needs to be extremely careful not to get worse relations with Poland or France with disagreements on Ukraine. Brexit has shown that the core of the EU might become unstable. Wars break out between direct neighbors most of the time, so Germany also needs to be nuanced and precise about being "not too different" on Ukraine compared to the countries that it directly borders. Diplomacy is nuanced and you can not just simply state what you think is the solution in a vacuum, like always.
In political discussions most people act like Germany can always suddenly pull a 180° without consequences (with France or Poland) lol.
The imperialist neolib alliance being destroyed would be good for literally everyone in the long term except maybe the French and Germans. Edit: it would probably be good for the French and German proletariat in the longer term too.
France, Germany, and Poland wouldn't go to war just because the German government said that Russia isn't the devil.