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Merkel’s family was targeted by the East German secret police while she was growing up, and has previously expressed personal outrage over revelations the NSA was monitoring her cell phone conversations.

And yet, Merkel was herself a member of the communist party and worked with the communists as a propagandist.

The reason behind the "childish" response is this: it is a Russian play to divide Germany from the United States, and there are elements within the German government, including Merkel, who are working to do it.

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It’s more than that. European companies are moving away from US IT as a response

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There was talk a couple of years ago about the German government wanting to come up with a modern-day equivalent of Molotov-Ribbentrop, which would enable both the European Union and Eurasian Union to consolidate their respective powers while not taking any action against one another. Not just over the Baltic Sea pipeline either, but relating to Georgia/South Ossetia too.