Hot on Donald Trump’s social media heels on Sunday night was the influential Russian businessman Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. He declared the AfD result “historic”, Germany’s national government “discredited” and the German Chancellor “humiliated”, comparing Friedrich Merz to the UK’s not-long-gone prime minister, Keir Starmer, who felt forced to resign this summer.
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