Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
The Atlantic is rough these days, as stormy disregard blows from the
United States to Europe and back. After you attacked
Germany’s trade practices, Chancellor Angela Merkel told a campaign
rally in Munich that “the times we can completely rely on others are
somewhat over” and that “we Europeans must take our destiny into our own
hands.” You reacted with a tweeted threat, citing Germany’s
failure to meet NATO’s military spending goals, saying “this will
change.”
Ms.
Merkel’s statement went viral, and by the next day her spokesman
Steffen Seibert was doing damage control. He stressed that Ms. Merkel
had called for more European independence before (which is correct) and
that the chancellor is “a deeply convinced trans-Atlanticist” (which is
correct, too). And it is true: On many levels, despite all the
rhetorical thunder, little has changed in substance, so far.
