ConWatch: Week 1,801

Does Germany have a constitution yet?

The Bupkes would like to start off this week’s ConWatch with an apology about last week’s ConWatch, which compared Germany to the United States. This was wrong to do to the United States and we are sorry.

The United States at least has the good sense not to belong to treaties and institutions it has no intent on upholding or complying with. Like the Rome Statute. Because your troops can’t commit war crimes if you aren’t party to the agreement that punishes war crimes.

If the United States does find itself part of something it would like to undermine — say, the WHO, the Paris accord, or the Iran nuclear deal — it shows some respect and bows out. Doing so means you can then revert to the values you say you stand for, and those values can be anything you want them to be because you, and not some supranational framework above you, are the ones who said what they are and no one can tell you otherwise.

This is liberation in its truest expression.

Germany might be the land of the Übermensch, bu…