It appears that the German elites an intelligentsia - and journalists, wherever they fall in that spectrum - are furious at Vance's speech... but the everyday German in the street feels like Vance was speaking for them.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake