Don’t the Libyans appreciate everything the Germans have done for them? Gee, I guess they don’t.
Before the Libyan revolution, Germany was the country’s second-largest trading partner. But then Germany abstained in a 2011 UN vote to militarily intervene in its civil war. Now that the war is over, German businesses and think tanks are finding that most Libyans want little to do with them.
“Water doesn’t flow uphill on its own / And wars, too, don’t stop themselves.”
Or does it just stay business as usual?
“The responsibility for stopping the Iranian bomb thus rests with a coalition of the willing. The attitude of Germany—Iran’s most important Western trading partner—will be critical to the success of such a coalition. But while the recent announcement by Siemens and Munich Re to exit the Iranian market have garnered headlines, hundreds of German manufacturers remain determined to continue doing business as usual with Tehran.”
Much of that business goes undetected via Dubai.
Observing Hermann 