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I'm John Batchett.

Thetys McConnell, American Greatness, joins me as my colleague and co-host,

and we're very pleased to go right to Berlin.

Judy Dempsey, a senior scholar for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

and are commenting immediately on the German political landscape, is the European political landscape, is the American political landscape,

caught up in one, two or more wars. The war in the Strait of Formos in Iran, the war in

Europe, Ukraine, and then there is the contest between NATO

and the Russian Federation and its allies. That's enough war listing right now. Judy, a very good

day to you. The arresting headline, if it is accurate, to my attention in these last 24 hours,

was a statement by the AFD, the rising populist party of Germany

in the Bundestag and in local elections, saying Americans out, which of course is reminiscent,

and the telegraph headline writers knew this, of how America was ordered out of France

once upon a time many decades ago by Charles de Gaulle.

AFD is an authority only in terms of being able to grow its numbers, most recently in a state in the

west part of Germany, the Palatinate grew its numbers, not yet growing its numbers routinely

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