Greens are part of the government. Baerbeck is a militant one, AFAIK. If your cold, put on a sweater type. Allin no fossil fuels. Greta Thunberg scene got the new school kid voters to go Green, I think. Ran on standing up to Putin. She met Lavrov in Moscow last week, but I haven't heard anything about that meeting. Next day the Berlin State's attorney re-opened an embezzlement investigation against her and other Greens. Alleged to have embezzled Covid stimulus money.
Bottom line, I think, is the new German government won't survive an energy blackout or brownout. Greens will be out for good. Lot of leverage for Putin.
Heard Savin say the other day to look at the correlation between countries still on lockdown to rumored 2020 election interference. Netherlands, Denmark, and Austria opening up. German parliament, OTOH, discussing mandatory vaccines yesterday, leading to a big protest in Berlin.
Putin has them by the short hairs, I think.
To me, it looks more like he's dissing on the US/German Diplomatic Corps failure to stand up to Russian pressure.
Short/sweet; The US/German Corps talk a good game but fold at crunch time.
That the Russians have a strong Diplomatic Corps should be obvious, so I don't think Ric is shilling for them. He's calling the US/Germans out for talking shit before the fight then getting knocked on their ass as soon as they stepped in the ring.
Ric bought a program, so he knows all the players. He's not wasting his time yelling at the bench sitters for effect. Goes right for the jugular of the first string.
Yeah, I think Ric knows the German bluster spiel from his time as US Ambassador. It's like a bark intended to have the meek shy away, but it doesn't work with Ric. They'll bark at you but then accuse you of being some imperfect human for barking back, because civilized persons don't bark. You can have some fun tweaking them when you know the game, like Ric does.
Has to be something there in the German/NATO kabuki that needs fixing before we can get some revelation and closure. Ric's in kicking ass and taking names mode with these MF's atm.