Germany & U.S. Agree on Tanks for Ukraine, German MP Accuses U.S. of Pushing Berlin into Proxy War

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8. It's not clear that her opinion is remotely in the majority.

One thing that is clear from what she said in the following speech which was made immediately prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is that W's invasion of Iraq cost the US whatever trustworthiness we may have had in the eyes of many. She echoes many of the points of the (IMO) misguided left in this speech:

Here's an article that discusses aspects of what she said and how she has seemingly thought about Russia and Ukraine for years. I apologize that I don't have time to translate. (DeepL does a decent job of translation.)

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/abgeordnete-der-linken-zeigen-verstandnis-fur-den-kreml-5997169.html