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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I frankly don’t see how this has to do anything with anything. Merz has also openly criticised Israel and, at least briefly, halted arms exports to them. It’s also news to me that being pro-Israel is a (far-)right thing in Germany.

    For obvious reasons, Israel and Jews in general are a very touchy topic in Germany and German politics. Until the recent developments in Gaza, it was really hard to find any politician at all that would speak critical of Israel. That is probably because Israel and their institutions tend to respond very harshly to any criticism, and whatever you would said was guaranteed to backfire.

    This has somewhat changed since it became hard to deny they are doing some pretty fucked up stuff over there. Blocking arms sales to Israel, even ever so briefly, could be described as a monumental policy shift from the formerly near-unconditional support that Israel was used to.










  • It’s always amazing to see how ‘the East’ projects on ‘the West’. Trump is not our Putin. Trump doesn’t speak for or command ‘the West’. Trump can fuck off.

    Many nations, inside and outside of Europe, pay more attention than ever on reducing their dependency on the US whereever possible, and he and his supporters are the reason for it.

    And the guy who attacked another nation unprovoked and immediatly threatened nuclear retaliation against anyone who intervenes is not ‘the head of the West’. It was Putin who did this. Putin and Putin alone is to blame for this. I grew up in a World were Russia was just a kinda crazy place, at least when judging based on viral videos, and nuclear war was an abstract concept from the past. He tore that world order down and I deeply despise him for it.