On the other end of the line, Deputy Chief of Mission John Koenig said that he was surprised by the ambassador's statements. He underscored that the US position remains unchanged: Washington will issue no comment on the private pipeline deal. Koenig suggested that the article may have been insufficiently screened in Washington -- a PR mishap, so to speak. The two experienced diplomats agreed to avoid a "public scuffle." However, von Fritsch made one condition: Nothing like the Wood article must be allowed to happen again.
The two experienced diplomats agreed to avoid a "public scuffle." However, von Fritsch made one condition: Nothing like the Wood article must be allowed to happen again.
Huh. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democrat parliamentary group in the European Parliament, even sees the Wood article as a "helpful" indicator of "what the Americans aim to do, namely destabilize Europe."
Cool! Now let's hear something as strong on the issue of visas and airline passenger lists, too. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
"The Baltic Sea pipeline would not lead to a one-sided dependency on Russia, which would in fact be dangerous," says CDU foreign policy spokesman Eckart von Klaeden. "After all, the enormous Russian investments have to be paid off."
There is an increasingly long list of topics on which Germany is standing firm to the US. Which makes France's position (up Bush's ass) all the more annoying. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
