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Merz Says ‘Pax Americana’ Is Ending, Urges Europe to Strengthen Independent Defence (www.khaama.com)

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[–] rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

merz always looks the same in pictures and it fascinates me. it is the face of someone who has little idea whats going on, but who has gotten quite far with acting absolutely confident in whatever they say.

its the same vibes ive seen from many managers who will speak abt the most complex unknowns with the utmost confidence. not because they know what theyre doing, but because admitting they cant be sure seems like an admission of weakness.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's very much the typical modern mainstream politician in Western Democracies.

I would say that somebody with at least a modicum of capability outside Presentation and Talkie-talkie, such as Merkel, has been more the exception than the rule in the last 2 decades at least.

Whilst the era of such politicians might seem to be coming to an end, IMHO what we're seing is just a style change of the Presentation + Talkie-talkie specialists from slick technocrat to loudmouth raging populist - seemingly different posture and discourse but their actual expertise is still in exactly the same domain and their ineptitude outside that is just as bad, maybe even a bit worse.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

He looks like the early version of Charlie Brown grown up to me.

You described his character incredibly succinctly.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Merz Says

Boring...

Merz Urges

Useless

Can he start doing anything significant?

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Merz... Slams?

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

His significant "contribution" is the continued free fall of the governing coalition's poll results. Merz is singlehandedly handing the next election to the neonazis on a silver platter.

CDU/CSU are down over 3%, SPD is down over 2% and AfD has an absolute majority in polls with nearly a 5% increase since the last election for a total of 25.5% of the surveyed.

We are doomed and at this point I'm not even sure Merz isn't doing it on purpose. Otherwise it'd be actually impressive how fast he speedran becoming the most disliked chancelor.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Pax Americana wasn't exactly peaceful outside of Europe and North America.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

American dominance wasn't good for anybody and European dominance or sphere won't be any better in its current form either.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Time for the Pax Europeana