While living in Germany, I can speak to this episode.
Frankly, the working-class German just doesn’t care. For them, this rates as problem number 1,000 on their list. All this faked-up hype, and they will tell you that the pension business, increasing poverty, screwed-up migration business, growing crime problems, and diesel car saga are all much higher issues.
The political crowd needs something to get the minds of the general public off the real issues.
“The German Foreign Ministry requested that Grenell clarify his remarks;”
To clarify, he was trying to say that you and your government suck.