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Europe

Germany's old business model no longer works. This is the end.

2026-03-29

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of kanzlerdaddy

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics

[ColonelCassad] BlackRock's protégé, German Chancellor Merz,

Is he Black Rock’s protégé really, or is that just Russian propaganda?

has publicly spoken out against Trump.

The Americans and Israelis are getting deeper into this conflict every day. And I feel they have no strategy.

Your feeling is wrong. Try thinking instead — on this kind of subject, thinking works much better. But do go on…

What do you really want? Is regime change really the goal?

Regime change is up to the Iranians. Israel and America want to destroy Iran’s ability to wage an external war, including making nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them, and supporting terror groups like Hamas and PIJ, Hezbollah in Lebanon, in the Americas, and in Europe, the Houthis, and others, a much more limited goal.

If so, I don't think they will achieve it. I told him (Trump), if you want our help, please contact us directly, not through the newspapers. He told me two or three times in a half-hour conversation, "I don't need NATO." Then he publicly declared that our behavior was wrong. I think the government (and probably the president himself) has now accepted the fact that we cannot participate in the conflict. And as long as the war continues, that is not an option for us either.

The question is whether NATO and Europe will step up to protect the shipping lanes that they need much more than America does. As Hillel the Elder said, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”

What Trump is doing now in Iran is not de-escalation or an attempt to find a peaceful solution,

…very true. What he is doing instead is working with Bibi to permanently fix the problem of the Mullahcracy...

but a large-scale escalation with an unpredictable outcome. But we are not yet militarily strong enough to defend the European continent on our own.

So what are you doing about that?

Therefore, it is important to me not to jeopardize the transatlantic alliance unnecessarily. We are currently trying to maintain this delicate balance. Germany's old business model no longer works. Cheap energy from Russia, intermediate products from China, exports all over the world, the Americans guaranteeing our security—all of this is gone and will not return. This is the end

Trump promised yesterday that he will not forget the behavior of some NATO countries after the attack on Iran, where they refused to help him. And that he will hold them accountable for it.

More from Boris Rozhin:
The deadlines are slipping away
The timeline is slipping. According to American media, US Secretary of State Rubio informed G-7 ministers that the war against Iran will last at least another two to four weeks.

The American side of the war, anyway. The Israeli side will last overtly and/covertly, until the Mullahs are broken, because they understand they have no choice, despite their protesting idiots.

The US already understands that it will not be able to meet the previously stated deadline of four to five weeks for aggression. And the further the war extends beyond this deadline, the greater the pressure will be on the Trump administration with its chatter about having "already won."

The deadline has already grown from "Tehran in three days" to eight weeks, and this is certainly not the limit. Meanwhile, Iran has achieved the greatest success in weakening American military potential since World War II, and no other side has been able to achieve this level. (c) New York Times

Granted, the US lost far more in Vietnam, but Iran undoubtedly inflicted enormous damage on the US on various levels. This is something the US certainly did not expect from Iran, overestimating its own strength and underestimating Iran's capabilities.

In recent news, the Iranians shot down another American F-16 last night and, according to their claims, destroyed two AWACS aircraft in Saudi Arabia. This is in addition to several tanker aircraft destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base. Hangars housing P-8 Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft were also hit in Bahrain.

More from regnum.ru
Merz called the US-Iran conflict an escalation with an uncertain outcome.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized US policy in the Middle East, calling President Donald Trump's actions in Iran a major escalation.

"What Trump is doing now is not de-escalation or an attempt to find a peaceful solution, but a large-scale escalation with an uncertain outcome," the chancellor said during a conference organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

According to him, this escalation already poses a threat not only to those directly affected, but to the entire world.

Merz also expressed doubt that Washington's stated goal of regime change in Tehran could be achieved.

"Is regime change really the goal? If that's the goal, I don't think they'll achieve it. In the past, such attempts have mostly failed," Merz pointed out.

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