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It speaks for the new American administration that it is looking for ways to improve German-American relations.
If one believes the first newspaper reports, the White House no longer wants to oppose the further construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Berlin fulfills a few other conditions.
So the Germans and the Russians can finish their work.
The question remains what the further construction of the controversial pipeline has to do with the Americans.
Aren't other considerations just as important?
Do we mind that even our closest allies, the French, are now opposing the project?
Are we really ready, with steel caps on our elbows, to push Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians aside in order to complete a building that has as much in common with the European idea as Donald Trump has with the Black Lives Matter movement?
How can you praise multilateral ideals, even demand them from other states - and at the same time selfishly fight your own interests?
Furthermore, haven't we internalized that German special paths only led to dead ends?
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And what is happening in relation to Russia?
Isn't it downright ridiculous to condemn the assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny and then calmly continue to work with Moscow on a project that will bring the Russians considerable financial gains?
Navalny's revelations around Putin's palace have shown that his camarilla is made up of three groups: moral cretins, smiling slaves, and poker-faced oligarchs.
Do we want to continue co-financing it?
For what reason should the Kremlin take Europe seriously as an independent political power when Germany, one of the central states of the European Union, sweeps all diplomatic tools off the table with regard to a disreputable natural gas deal?
The federal government is silent on many of these questions.
But you can tell her politics by the words she doesn't say.
And is ashamed.