When there is no agreement in comrades

The new German government, sworn in on December 8, is only two weeks old, but even such a short period can hardly be called a honeymoon.

In the SPD and junior coalition partners troika, ie the FDP and the Greens, only free democrats keep order.

This is probably due to the fact that the FDP during the entire period (already a very long one) of its existence served only in the role of a younger brother, never claiming more.

Hence the habit of discipline.

The same cannot be said for the Greens, who have already made a number of inconsistent statements.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock makes up for her inexperience in the intricacies of international politics (as well as politics in general) with a young pressure.

The expulsion of two Russian diplomats, accused of involvement in the murder of an emigrant, and without undoubted evidence, and an ardent statement in the spirit of "this will be the case with everyone" - this may not be the starting point for the ministry.

As Prince Talleyrand instructed his young subordinates: "The main thing, gentlemen, is less zeal."

There and then zeal more than enough.

Annalena spoke in the spirit that SP-2 will never be certified and, therefore, launched.

That in a cold winter was especially appropriate.

After such bold speeches of the minister -

“We won't get used to it, -

Let your frost crackle:

Our Aryan blood

It burns in the cold! "

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prices on the exchange gas market exceeded € 2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters.

However, Annalena, it seems, is ready to give the Bundesburgers the medal of "frozen meat", as it was 80 years ago, but will not disgrace the green ideals.

And to make it even cooler, she said government officials should stay away from the Beijing Winter Olympics so that they "aren't used for political purposes or ceremonies."

Obviously, so that no one has any doubts that the Greens are an Anglo-Saxon creature - after all, so far only representatives of Oceania are talking about a diplomatic boycott of the Games.

And the deterioration of relations with the PRC - and the Chinese are vindictive - is what Germany urgently needs now.

That is, again "we will drink everything, but we will not disgrace the fleet."

After that, the Chancellor Scholz was forced to publicly disavow Frau Berbock's statements both about the SP-2 and about the Beijing Games.

In principle, the game of a good (Scholz) and an evil (Annalena) investigator was in diplomacy before.

People's Commissar Molotov was adamant in all matters, and Comrade Stalin gently corrected him.

As well as Reich Minister Ribbentrop was deadly firm, and Reich Chancellor Hitler sometimes showed peacefulness.

But, firstly, it was not in democratic, but in totalitarian states.

And secondly, what is even more important, in these tandems "the leader - the head of the Foreign Ministry" both participants were anything but stupid, and the ministers understood discipline.

There are strong doubts about Annalena.

So, most likely, this is not a wisdom-insidious bifurcation of foreign policy, but the most banal Unordnung.

A mess, in a workers 'and peasants' way.

In the absence of education and experience, but in the presence of bold ambitions (reflection and caution are definitely not about the Greens) what else can we expect?

Of course, Chancellor Scholz, who will have to disentangle all this, can count on his political and apparatus experience, which will allow him to push aside the vociferous Frau.

Apparently, apparatus wisdom is an important matter even in a democracy.

But there is a complication here.

Scholz's rear is frankly weak - only 28% of the seats in the Bundestag versus 14% for the Greens.

And the bold behavior of the latter is partly due to just this.

With the previous entry of environmentalists into the government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998, the picture was somewhat different - 41% of the mandates for the SPD and only 6.7% for the Greens.

Therefore, their leader and vice-chancellor, Joschka Fischer, is also a leftist, still meekness in the post of foreign minister.

In exact accordance with the French aphorism of the late 19th century: "There are radical ministers (party -

), but there are no radical ministers."

But times are changing, and the Germans are not French.

And now Scholz will have to cohabit with humanitarian-radical green ministers who did not care about his problems.

As well as the coalition agreement.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.