The transcript of the interview is in German but if one doesn't read the language of love (Happy Valentine's Day!) most machine translators will give a decent approximation of what was said.
Here's a part deep into the interview that might be of interest to our readers, interviewer queries in italics:
February 14, 2023
....What do you think were the motives for the attack? The US government was against the pipeline for many reasons. Some say she was against it because she wanted to weaken Russia or to weaken relations between Russia and Western Europe, especially Germany. But maybe also to weaken the German economy, which is a competitor to the US economy. High gas prices have prompted companies to relocate to the US. What is your take on the US government's motives?
I don't think they've thought this through thoroughly. I know that sounds strange. I don't think Secretary of State Blinken and some others in the government are deep thinkers. There are certainly people in American business who like the idea that we are becoming more competitive. We sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) at extremely high profits, we make a lot of money from it.
I'm sure there were some people who thought, Boy, is this going to give the American economy a long-term boost. But in the White House, I think they've always been obsessed with re-election, and they wanted to win the war, they wanted to get a victory, they wanted Ukraine to somehow magically win. There might be some people who think that maybe it's better for our economy if the German economy is weak, but that's crazy. I think we got caught up in something that won't work, the war won't end well for this government.
How do you think this war could end?
It doesn't matter what I think. What I do know is that there is no way this war will end the way we want it to, and I don't know what we will do as we look further into the future. It scares me that the President was willing to do something like this. And the people running that mission believed that the President was aware of what he was doing to the people of Germany, that he was punishing them for a war that wasn't going well. And in the long run, this will not only damage his reputation as President, it will also be very damaging politically. It will be a stigma for the US.
The White House was concerned that it might be lost, that Germany and Western Europe would stop supplying the weapons we wanted, and that the German Chancellor might put the pipeline back online—that was a big concern in Washington. I would ask Chancellor Scholz a lot of questions. I would ask him what he learned in February when he was with the President. The operation was top secret and the President wasn't supposed to tell anyone about our ability, but he likes to chat, he sometimes says things he shouldn't say.....
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In other news from Germany, via Popular Mechanics:
German Doctors Are Attempting to Reverse Death and Resurrect Humans
I was always under the impression that, at least statistically, your best chance of pulling this off would be in Jerusalem rather than Berlin.
