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Comment author: Torchlight_Crimson 03 March 2016 07:52:37AM 2 points [-]

No. Not in the sense that Merkel, etc. are unimportant, but in the sense that a systemic crisis is not reducible to the importance of whoever happens to be in the office at the moment.

Even if she did greatly exacerbate it by doing something really stupid?

Comment author: Lumifer 03 March 2016 03:56:51PM 1 point [-]

Yes, even, because there are reasons she did that and those reasons don't have much to do with her personally. It wasn't like she buckled the entire German consensus.

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