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The Green Party in Germany has been hijacked by the likes of Annalena Baerbock, who is behaving like a US intelligence asset.
I wouldn't go so far as to call her an intelligence asset. I will give her the benefit of doubt of simply being weak on content and focusing on form only. I.e. she is doing politics for Twitter and Instagram, serving a constituency of young, well-of, urban middle-class intellectuals. She lacks any originality and is a mediocre politician constantly intent on selling herself for more than she is (see her disasterous blunders during her bid for chancellor). It is in this context that I interpret her "transatlanticism" and "value-based foreign policy" - just stick to the old recipe and maybe throw in some feminist and human rights slogans while doing nothing of consequence or any structural reforms that might piss off the US or finance sector and industry donors of the Green Party. In a way I find such lukewarm centrists betraying the climate and social justice cause even more repelling than right wing lunatics...