Trumps militant Younger
Joe Biden, the Americans will be reconciled to each other again. The policy must not be a “raging fire”, the all-devouring, he said on Wednesday in his inaugural speech; one could be of a different opinion, without seeing in the other an enemy. The freshly sworn-in US President means when he speaks of the Bible quoting of healing.
Biden seems to recognize but one thing: The political camps in the country are increasingly not just an opinion – they exist in different universes. Trumps big lie, the Democrats are using him Election fraud from the White house, hunted, has led to a considerable part of the population holds to its successor for an illegitimate President.
Trump has dormant awakened in the past few years, furthermore, forces, in US history, has always been a role, as last but. Militias and other extreme-right groups are not a fringe phenomena, and more. A militant Arm of the Trump movement is already taking shape.
My Colleague Aleksandar Sarovic spoke with Allen Lardieri, a mine worker from West Virginia, and formerly a member of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that was involved in the assault on the Capitol. In the interview, he revealed his deep-seated Anger at Democrats and moderate Republicans. Trumps a lie by the election of men like Lardieri is used fraud as a meaningful Element. The attack on the Capitol was probably not the low point, but the beginning of something. The Risk of terrorism could be the Biden presidency-defining, says Sarovic, who along with his colleagues René Pfister the explosive political situation in the United States describes. A Reconciliation-Rhetoric alone will impress militant groups hardly.
Environmental Sham
One of the few things that unites Democrats and Republicans still, the consistent rejection of the Gas Pipeline Nord Stream 2. Also, Joe Biden will change little of the project as bad Deal for Europe described. Germany and the USA want to improve your relationships according to the Phase of the provocations under Donald Trump urgently. In the case of Nord Stream 2 but no side can afford falling, still.
So what to do? Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Head Of Government Manuela Schwesig (SPD) will now be funded by Nord Stream, supposedly for the common good to serve “Foundation for environmental and climate protection MV” the threat of US sanctions deal to build the Pipeline to the end. This is not just an environmental sham, it has relatively little prospect of success, as my colleagues Philipp Kolle Broich, Gunther Latsch and Christoph Schult have researched.
More promising than Schwesigs Tarnstiftung an approach that is circulating currently in the diplomatic back rooms in Washington and Berlin seems to take The idea to search about Nord Stream 2 is also a solution, so also for LPG imports with a view to the concerns of the Eastern Europeans before possible Power Of Vladimir Putin’s Play to take more seriously. “It is a kind of power would be a political Super-Deal,” says Kolle Broich. “The difficult task for the diplomats, is now, a compromise to explore without too much readiness to compromise.” The next few weeks and months will be exciting.
The new Arrogance
How superior China is to us, really? This is the question that my colleague Bernhard Zand to answer in the current MIRROR-the title story tries. His piece tells of how the finished China to be exactly one year ago seemed. And how it within a year to bounce back has come. At the beginning of February, told me Zand, he, like many at the time-the air is stopped and for the first Time in his eight years as a China correspondent asked whether the Regime now bröckele. In the leadership circles of the Communist Party it was probably the same question. It is now clear: The party has the Crisis survived and used, in order to consolidate their rule.
But that is after the Zands of the opinion that the Chinese System would be superior. Other countries in the Region weathered the crisis well, especially the democratic Taiwan.
However, the people in Wuhan and the Rest of the country at the time of Combat the pandemic Extraordinary done. Some of it can also be for Europe to learn that a determined hard Lockdown more effective as a zauderndes open and Close, for example. Australia and new Zealand also followed the Chinese example.
Zands analysis also deals with the Dynamics between China and the United States. In the twelve months of the pandemic came to a head, what was to be expected in the Trump-years early: the enormously growing, meanwhile, on the Arrogance that borders on Self-confidence of the Chinesereached after the storm , the Capitol building, its historic peak. Of a country where citizens attack a person’s own Parliament it will not be longer in terms of democracy education to master.
The “competition of systems” have only just begun, believes Zand. “He will occupy the world for a long time.”
Winner of the day …
… is Armin Laschet. After him, the delegates to the digital party tags already on the previous Saturday (with a slight advantage in front of Friedrich Merz) online the new CDU-Chairman had chosen, he was confirmed yesterday with 83,35 per cent of the votes cast by postal ballot. Its competitors, Norbert Röttgen, and Friedrich Merz did not stand for election.
Two major challenges are now waiting for Laschet, which should also decide about his chances to become Chancellor candidate of the Union. He must integrate the many intra-party followers of Friedrich Merz, somehow, without letting the Idol dance on the nose. And he has the next two State elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg in March of reasonably benign weather. The CDU should suffer, in both countries, a defeat, this could also disrupt laschet’s plans. On the Chancellor candidacy he and CSU-Chef Markus Söder only after these state elections.
Laschet is aware of the connection between the elections and his candidacy. Therefore, he is already in two States, the active. He wants to attend a meeting of the Federal Committee of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, he will hold the Online-conference of the baden-württemberg CDU in the Stuttgart-based car halls a speech. For his first major Appearance as party chief would Laschet’s probably a more relaxed Terrain desired. Baden-Württemberg is still considered as Merz-high castle.
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