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I wonder what Churchill, FDR, Bismarck, Stalin etc thought that a German woman was the most powerful being in Europe for two decades.
Germany went from a rightful position of frustration to a position deserving of rightful praise.  Successfully transitioning out of all Russian energy is itself a massive blow to Russia, nevertheless all of the financial and weapons transfers.  Germany had to break through a ton of bureaucracy and seriously reshape both political and energy policies to get where it is now. >

German bureaucracy needs major reforms throughout, their slowness, rigidity and extreme hard-on for paper-copies and disregard for any electronic means of doing stuff has it downright stuck in the 1970s >

I mean, the slowness is a feature. It's made to put as much red rape in front of the next Hitler as possible, so they they just get tired of filling out forms and give up. >

Imagine if Hitler wasn’t able to come to power because he didn’t want to fill out forms. >

Look, I know you wish to start a thousand-year reich, but you didn't fill out your forms in triplicate and you used a green pen, so we just gave Merkel the job again.