Germany has been in the headlines lately, not least because of JD Vance’s recent visit. He told the Germans, with the same American brashness served up in the 1940s, what he thought of them. I was reminded of Denethor in Lord of the Rings – the elder steward of Gondor who looked too long at Sauron, could not do what was required, and incinerated himself instead.
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