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It is a short scene, but she says a lot about the state of German-American relationships: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio took just 45 minutes for greeting, photo shoot and conversation with his Berlin colleague Johann Wadephul. Before their exchange, the two diplomats on the seventh floor of the Washington State Department of Departments into the cameras smile. “Mister Secretary, do you still think Germany is a tyranny?”, A mit ZDF correspondent wants to know. Rubio does not take a face. The call is justified. After all, after the AfD was classified, Rubio had posted the protection of the constitution as “secured right -wing extremist” at X: “This is not a democracy – that is a disguised tyranny”.
