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Not that I know. Instead the Don sent his emissary Elon the Fallen and Vance the Wide Jaw to explicitly support the AfD.

But I would not be surprised if Merz weasels to Trump'S feet and sucks his toes. Energy. Defense. Microsoft. Cars. Germany is not particularly strong in any of these areas.

Yes - cars. If you are as depending on exports as Germayny is, this is no sign of independence but dependence. Weakness. I have never seen the German economic model as a strong model that can be sustained over a long period of time. It can't - and we now see it. The times of old fame and glory will not come back, the fundament of education and labour moral, a virtue the Germans once prided themselves with, is no more there, instead we get plenty of exotic laissez-faire and school-indoctrinated incompetence. The decline started with Merkel Goddess of Sleep and Paralysis at the latest, maybe even earlier already around the time of reunification.