Germansplaining: Trump’s Germany troop tantrum is a self-destructive mess
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Outside America’s big cities, my encounters tend to begin with a cheerful misunderstanding. Quite literally.
“You’re German!”, locals exclaim with a warmth that my compatriots and I rarely meet elsewhere.
Then comes the rhapsodising – about the places in Deutschland they know, or know of. And I, as it happens, don’t.
At some point, as they share fond memories of their own, or their husband’s, or their cousin’s time in [can decipher the first syllable, remainder lost to the Atlantic], I beg
“You’re German!”, locals exclaim with a warmth that my compatriots and I rarely meet elsewhere.
Then comes the rhapsodising – about the places in Deutschland they know, or know of. And I, as it happens, don’t.
At some point, as they share fond memories of their own, or their husband’s, or their cousin’s time in [can decipher the first syllable, remainder lost to the Atlantic], I beg
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