“Clearly, for the Obama administration, pushing the reset button on Russia did not include dumping a major GM asset to suit a German grand coalition notion for pocketing election campaign fillips for ‘saving’ Opel from GM with investment money from ‘strategic partners’ Moscow.

As scrupulously as the administration in Washington has said nothing about it, an American official, who asked that his name not be used, told me, ‘I think in general we’ve come to the point where the Germans feel they can take the United States for granted and do.’”

“Priorities are as clear as mud in Germany.”