Friedrich Merz is struggling because his communication style is perceived as loose and his relationship with coalition partners is difficult.

“The weakness of his interview yesterday was it was so much about political process and not about the kind of big message. He got to the big message a little bit when he got onto Trump, but again it was very much unwinding the damage that maybe people felt that he'd done last week.”

Germany needs to transition away from its current military and security dependency on the United States.

“Germany needs to move, and Europe needs to move towards weaning itself off this military and security dependency.”

She believes the German government is targeting the AfD party because it is the most popular party and represents a threat to their current power.

“I am in support of the currently democratically most popular party in Germany, the AFD party, which is essentially just a MAGA equivalent in Germany. And uh they our government want to try to shut them down even though they are the most popular party.”