[Skybird]

There are certainyl conclusions to be drawn abiout Merkel'S foeign policy. Over here it is a sometimes raised criticism about her that she has no vision and far sight, only manages situations from one day to the next, basing on grounds that she did nothing to lay out, only bedbnefits of for ther own opportunistic day-to-day managing of things. And that holds a lot of truth. She is a typical aparatschik, imo, and therefore a very helpless victim for political palyers with longterm strageies like China, or Turkey - these actor'S doings simply go beyond her radar horizon. Her loyalty to the EU is purely ideology-founded and holds no substance beyind that.



This basic trait of hers explains also a lot of those qualities she is missing. I have always seen her as hopelessly overestimated. She might have been a good hotel manager and good in delaign with the guests. But she would never have become that somebody founding and planning and constructing the hotel in the first. Too much of just a Verwaltungsangstellte (government employee, administrative officer)in her, with a Beamtenmentalität (=bureaucratic mentality?). A problem that is very widespread in Germany and explains also much of the general German Anspruchshaltung (=entitlement mentality?) n very many people.



She knows the rule sof the game. But she is incapable tot hink beyond them or beyond the game. She only opportunistically poses after having watched the plebs' mouths.