"Annalena Baerbock, who had aspired to succeed Merkel as the first Green chancellor before the campaign revealed her mediocrity, nevertheless gets to be foreign minister. She brings to the job a disturbing combination of overconfidence, inexperience and ideological certainty.
At 40, her only known expertise is in trampoline jumping, and she takes over the foreign ministry at a moment of heightened tensions between Russia and NATO. On her second day in office, she rushed to NATO headquarters in Brussels to reaffirm her oft-declared devotion to the Atlantic Alliance."
Diana Johnstone in Consortium News
Hatte nicht irgendwer davon gesprochen wir würden uns nach Merkels Gurkentruppe zurück sehnen. Selbst Herr Maas hatte in Sachen Russland noch ein gewisses "Augenmaas".