The emperor is naked. At the critical moment, Germany has shown itself to be a feckless, unreliable ally, more deeply corrupted & coopted by its “commercial” authoritarian entanglements than many (esp in the US) realized. With friends like these, you don’t need enemies. /1

It’s time for Biden to stop pussy-footing around Berlin in prostration for his predecessor’s offenses and privileging the bilateral relationship over other allies and the imperatives of transatlantic security – which, indeed, Germany has been consistently sabotaging for years. /2

Strategic corruption is a disease, and it has weakened the German state to such an extent that it now clearly jeopardizes the global democratic community. We need to respond with tough love and public exposure of the disease. /3

Eg: is it public knowledge in Europe and the US that Matthias Warnig, CEO of Nord Stream AG, is a former Stasi officer whom Putin befriended and recruited for the KGB while in Dresden? (Sanctions against Warnig and Nord Stream AG were lifted by the Biden admin last year! ) /4

Every time a German official tries to say that NS2 is “just a commercial project”, they should be publicly confronted with this fact by other EU/NATO leaders.

The rot runs deep, and it has been allowed to fester for far too long. Enough is enough. /5