Foreign Minister Baerbock Clarifies Germany’s Fuzzy Foreign Policy

Bohdan Nahaylo / The Kyiv Post

Berlin, or rather Germany’s new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, has finally begun using the proper language to describe the current international stand-off between East and West over Ukraine’s fate.

On Feb. 18 the minister tweeted on the Twitter page of the German Foreign Ministry:

“With its massive troop deployment, Russia is making an absolutely unacceptable threat. Against Ukraine. But also towards all of us and our peace architecture in Europe. This crisis is therefore not a Ukraine crisis. It is a Russia crisis.”

Representing the German Greens in the new coalition, Baerbock has consistently taken a firmer stance towards Russia’s menacing behavior and been more openly supportive of Ukraine than her colleagues from the Social Democrats (SPD) and their new German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz.

Supreme Court to Hear ‘Remain in Mexico’ Case 

Rebecca Downs – Townhall 

 

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it was taking up the “Remain in Mexico” case, after the Biden administration has appealed. The policy from the Trump administration requires those seeking asylum who come to the United States via the southern border to wait in Mexico for a hearing in the U.S. immigration court.

Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden quickly got to work getting rid of the policy, but a ruling last August from U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in Texas upheld the policy. 

The Biden administration’s version of the policy was implemented last December, as Julio highlighted from on the ground in Yuma, Arizona. 

The U.S. Supreme Court had also previously upheld “Remain in Mexico,” last August after Judge Kacsmaryk’s decision, but such an emergency docket decision was unsigned. This use of…Read more here.

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