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odd because Merkel knows a thing or two about nuclear, doesnt she?

• roenxi 2y ago
  Eh. A leader's personal characteristics have an important but surprisingly small impact on the thing led. There are a lot of examples of that (quite a high profile one playing out around the US president right now, for example). My usual go-to is in Australia there was a politician who literally wrote a book recommending against the policies he adopted while in power. There wasn't any evidence that he'd changed his intellectual views, he was just blown by a stronger wind than his convictions.
• 486sx33 2y ago
  Odd that Angela Merkel was born in West Germany but her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant (I guess on PURPOSE?) talk about the wrong move of a lifetime. Anyway a little history “Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As the protégée of chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as Minister for Women and Youth in 1991, later becoming Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994.” I would hope she knew a thing or two about nuclear