@athousandyoung saidRussia ain’t no Europe.
Define "Europe" - Putin is pretty amazing
And Putin is anything but bloody great.
Actually, Putin is a lot like trump. Only KGB trained, fit and competent.
@vivify saidI would say so.
Given Merkel's remarkable accomplishment of leading Europe of of a potentially crippling financial crises and guiding Germany to be one the most financially successful nations, among other accomplishments, could she be the greatest European leader of the 2000s (so far)?
The German leadership has been very professional since the reunification. And that was a massive bloody undertaking in itself. And Merkel played her part there too.
Extremely competent.
She’s from the centre-right of politics (so not my cup of tea), but sweet Jesus, did she ever see the larger picture!
And talking about pictures. This one just sums it up:
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/4230291/merkel-versus-trump-de-foto-waar-mensen-niet-over-uitgepraat
@vivify saidI can go along with that. I wish she was running our country.
Given Merkel's remarkable accomplishment of leading Europe of of a potentially crippling financial crises and guiding Germany to be one the most financially successful nations, among other accomplishments, could she be the greatest European leader of the 2000s (so far)?
@mchill saidShe showed that she is great by announcing to step down and follow through with it, even though it was quite clear that most Germans would have had her rather than Laschet or Scholz (or Baerbock).
I can go along with that. I wish she was running our country.
@shavixmir saidsooo, nothing like trump? 🙂
Russia ain’t no Europe.
And Putin is anything but bloody great.
Actually, Putin is a lot like trump. Only KGB trained, fit and competent.
-Removed-Good job she never ran for the office of President or prime minister of Greece then.
It’s not a national leaders job to be popular in another country. It’s not Merkels fault that the one size fits all European economic model doesn’t work in Greece, it barely works in France.
I can see why Merkel didn’t think it was the German taxpayers job to bail out Southern Europe every 10 yrs or so.