| Ryuu96 said: The president of Germany's Christian Democratic Union deplores the European Union's constant hesitation in providing aid to Ukraine, and criticizes it for failing to distance itself sufficiently from the Americans. CDU President Friedrich Merz: 'European foreign and security policy is in a desolate state' |
I am going to piggyback on this post in light of the German government being about to be dissolved notably before the scheduled September 2025 election.
So a day after Trump won, the German coalition broke for good after a long time of struggles. This paves the way for earlier elections which could in theory happen as soon as mid-January 2025. But Scholz has decided that he won't ask the "Vertrauensfrage" to the parliament before January; if the majority of the parliament distrusts him to continue to lead the country (and it's certain that it will go that way), new elections have to happen within 60 days. So Scholz's stubbornness will drag this out for another two months, pushing the date of the election into March. Another instance of lack of decisiveness that will cost Ukraine. The EU has been paralyzed for months by choosing to wait until the US elections, now Germany extends this whole thing.
The next point to make is that Friedrich Merz is bound to win the election with his party sitting at 33% in the most recent poll, way ahead of Scholz's SPD at 17%. So it's pretty much set who Germany's next chancellor will be, but what does this mean for Ukraine? Not much at all, I'm afraid. Because when Merz was going up against Scholz's refusal to give Taurus to Ukraine, he pushed for a vote in the parliament twice and on both occasions his own party had a sizeable number of representatives who voted against it.
The disheartening conclusion is that an opposition leader can talk big all he wants without needing anything to back it up. Germany is also steering towards a CDU+SPD coalition as its next government, so increased support for Ukraine is a pipe dream.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
