They are also a German multimillionaire family. They are old German money. The kind that uses their political influence to lobby against property or inheritance taxes.

Exactly. We need an omnipolar world where we are desired partners for cooperation. Countries like France have been exploiting former colonies in Africa for ages. That’s why they happily sign Chinese contracts now. Europe’s success came at the expense of their former colonies. And it’s one of the reasons why all those dictators in Africa stayed in power. Because we funded them in exchange for their resources. Just like the US.

We need to work on establishing a sustainable world order. We may lose short term economic advantages, but we have to gain so much.

Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn’t be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of some related issues.

Here’s the story:

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/acquittal-despite-confession-wittlich-us-court-martial-justice

AI is great if you use it the right way. When writing at work, I usually ask for a template or a structure. That way I skip the basic stuff and have some scaffolding to iterate on. It removes the blank page. I love it.