Well, I certainly do look at him in wonder.

They also won’t result in anything other than US disengagement. Ukraine won’t surrender just because Trump says so. And neither will Poland and the Baltic states, and because of that the EU as a whole won’t.

It won’t even end the war. It’ll just make America look weak.

There won’t be a hanging, nor any other form of execution. We don’t do that here. It’s uncivilised, it’s brutal, and it’s unnecessary.

Nope. I overestimated him.

Doesn’t mean that his party would go for an AfD coalition though. He hasn’t even managed to get them to vote to pass a law with the AfD.

He won’t, at least not this year. There are still too many people in the CDU who’d be up in arms against a coalition or any other form of formal cooperation with the AfD, and many of the CDU’s voters are in the same boat. Not necessarily a majority in either case, but a big enough minority to kill any hopes of stable government or of winning an election with the party and electorate split.

Merz knows that. He’s an asshole, not stupid.

Imperial? Between Germany and China there’s one country that claims territory belonging to virtually all of its neighbours - hint, that country is not Germany.