Clearly upset about German Opel jobs staying here in Germany now after all, under such intolerable conditions, I mean (Opel will now remain with that yucky General Motors mother of theirs), a German government spokesman has announced that Berlin regretted GM’s decision to keep Opel and has demanded that the US-American company repay the 1.5 billion euro bridge financing package that German banks and re-election campaign strategists put together in order to convince GM to sell Opel down the river to Russian-backed Magna instead.

I don’t wirklich (really) understand this huffy German reaction, to tell you the truth. Unless of course maybe you consider that Germans are notorious anti-militarists (see Afghanistan, for instance) and hate the thought of working for any kind of general, whatever his or her name may be. This is just pure speculation on my part, however.

“Merkel had personally been involved in talks, offering substantial German government financial aid in return for assurances that jobs in Germany would be protected.”

Europe this, Europe that, but when it comes to jobs and number one… The main thing is that of the 10,500 people who are about to get fired at Opel 1) they won’t be getting fired by that awful American GM company (it will be Magna and Russia and Co. instead), and 2) most of those getting fired will be in Belgium and England.

Oh yeah, and now it comes out that tons of German government support money involved in “the deal” will be flowing off to Russia with love. The technology too, of course, but that’s another story.

“Dass etliche Jobs wegfallen war schon vorher klar, dass es so viele sein werden allerdings nicht.”

“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.”