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Will Germany buckle under Trump?
VICTOR GROSSMAN wonders if the new US ambassador’s orders to German companies to cease trade with Iran has set the tone for the country’s compliance with imperial orders
Merkel & Leyen

IN recent weeks it seems like global tensions are increasing constantly.

Only days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference attack on Iran, Donald Trump tore up the US copy of the Iran nuclear agreement, only hours later Israel launched its missile strike in Syria, with warplanes hitting Iranian sites around Damascus.

Netanyahu called it a reprisal for Iranian military attacks against Israeli positions on the Golan Heights a day earlier.

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