John Kampfner
Watching Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Friedrich Merz in London on another mercy mission to shore up Ukraine from the pincer attack of Moscow and Washington, it was intriguing to watch their body language for answers to the following question: Between the British prime minister, French president, and German chancellor, which one is in the gravest danger? Or, to put it another way: Whose country is in a worse state?
Many Germans have no doubt—Merz has been in office for seven months, but the “Berlin bubble” wrote him off long ago. Indeed, almost nobody that I talk to has ever had a good word to say about him and are delighted that their dismissiveness has become self-fulfilling. Here, after all, was a man who initially couldn’t even get the endorsement of parliament that had previously been considered a foregone conclusion.
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