President Trump has repeatedly attacked German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for comments he made about the U.S. role in the Iran war, targeting a leader who has worked hard to be in the president’s good graces and a country considered to be one of the U.S.’s strongest allies. The comments escalate Trump’s attacks on European nations… Source link
On Monday, Mr Merz claimed the US “obviously went into this war without any strategy”. He said during a discussion with students at a high school in Marsberg in the Sauerland region: “Especially since the Iranians obviously negotiate very skillfully – or do not negotiate very skillfully. An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” During the discussion, the Germany’s Chancellor also said: “Because the Iranians are obviously stronger than previously thought, and the Americans clearly lack a truly convincing strategy in the negotiations.” However, the criticism appears to have infuriated Mr Trump, who has responded in furious fashion in a post on Truth Social. He wrote: “The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! “If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. “I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. “No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise! President …
Germany’s chancellor has declared America is being “humiliated” by Iran over negotiations to end the war in the country and reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz. Friedrich Merz said he “can’t tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing” exactly two months after the conflict began. A ceasefire is currently in place, but there is little prospect of an imminent peace deal being reached. Meanwhile, the key waterway the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, while the US is blockading Iran’s ports. Donald Trump last week called off planned peace talks which had been due to be held between American and Iranian officials in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, insisting they were a waste of time. Posting on Truth Social, he said: “If they want to talk, all they have to do is call.” But Merz said: “At the moment I can’t tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing, especially since the Iranians are obviously negotiating very skilfully, or perhaps very skilfully refusing to negotiate, and are letting the Americans travel to Islamabad only to send …
Donald Trump and Friedrich Merz last October. via Associated Press America is being “humiliated” by Iran over negotiations to end the war in the country, Germany’s chancellor has declared. Friedrich Merz said he “can’t tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing” exactly two months after the conflict began. A ceasefire is currently in place, but there is little prospect of an imminent peace deal being reached. Meanwhile, the key waterway the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, while the US is blockading Iran’s ports. Donald Trump last week called off planned peace talks which had been due to be held between American and Iranian officials in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, insisting they were a waste of time. Posting on Truth Social, he said: “If they want to talk, all they have to do is call.” But Merz said: “At the moment I can’t tell what strategic exit the Americans are pursuing, especially since the Iranians are obviously negotiating very skilfully, or perhaps very skilfully refusing to negotiate, and are letting the Americans travel to Islamabad …
A philosopher perhaps more widely known for his prodigious mustache than for the varieties of his thought, Friedrich Nietzsche often seems to be misread more than read. Even someone like Michel Foucault could gloss over a crucial fact about Nietzsche’s body of work: Foucault remarked in an unpublished interview that Nietzsche’s “wonderful ideas” were “used by the Nazi Party.” But that use, he neglected to mention, came about through a scheme hatched by Nietzsche’s sister, after his mental collapse and death, to edit, change, and otherwise manipulate the thinker’s work in a way The Telegraph deemed “criminal.” Foucault may not have known the full context, but Nietzsche had about as much sympathy for fascism as he did for Christianity—both reasons for his break with composer Richard Wagner. What Nietzsche loved most was music. Even in the wake of this scandal, with Nietzsche fully rehabilitated at the scholarly level at least, the philosopher is generally read piecemeal, used to prop up some ideology or critical theory or another, a tendency his anti-systematic, aphoristic work inspires. A more …
Whether through TV crime dramas or cinema blockbusters about dinosaur theme parks, DNA is a staple of modern popular culture – its double-helix structure one of science’s most iconic visualisations. Yet remarkably, the young Swiss scientist who discovered DNA in the first place is largely forgotten. Born in Basel in 1844, Friedrich Miescher only began his career as a researcher after developing a hearing impairment that forced him to shelve plans to be a doctor like his father. Working in the medieval castle that overlooks the old German town of Tübingen, Miescher’s aim was a grand one – to uncover the chemical nature of life itself. But his working environment was rather different to today’s molecular biology laboratories. The University of Tübingen’s conversion of the castle kitchens into laboratories appears to have involved little more than swapping pots and pans for beakers and alembics used for distillation. Working in what he likened to the laboratory of a medieval alchemist, the first stage of Miescher’s research was the unsavoury task of scraping pus from discarded surgical …
Friedrich Nietzsche challenged inherited morality and asked what gives life value. He wrote in pointed aphorisms that still shape debates about meaning, art, and the self. This article explains five of his most cited lines. For each, you will see what it means, where it appears, and why it remains relevant today. 1. “God Is Dead, and We Have Killed Him.” The Dead Christ with Angels by Édouard Manet, 1864. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The statement “God is dead, and we have killed him” epitomizes Friedrich Nietzsche. This phrase encapsulates his thoughts on traditional religion, which has been eroded in the Western world. This is not a literal death; instead, it refers to the loss of faith in an all-powerful deity that provides humans with a universal objective meaning and reason for existence. He believed that moral values created from religious doctrine constrict potential and hinder personal development. Leaving faith behind would, therefore, bring on a crisis over identity and values. What if there is no divine guidebook left? …
Published: Nov 16, 2025written by Mirjana Jojić, BA Literature and Theory of Literature, in-progress Let’s go back briefly to the year 1800—a year extremely important for the Romantic movement and the Philosophy of Idealism for a couple of reasons: Schelling publishes his System of Transcendental Idealism, and Wordsworth adds the famous preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads. The most important reason for us is that Schlegel published his Dialogue on Poetry, implementing his idea that one can write about poetry only through the poetry itself. Written on the model of Plato’s Symposium, is his own work: The Debate on Mythology. Friedrich von Schlegel and Dialogues on Poetry The Looks of Athenaeum from 1798. Source: Public Domain Friedrich von Schlegel was one of the most significant minds of German Romanticism. He was a master in many fields: not only a literary critic and theoretician, a philosopher and historian, but he was also a linguist and philologist. A man with so many interests, he started studying law. Still, he soon discovered …
