Merkel's tank deal immoral

The German government is refusing to reveal details about a tank deal with Saudi Arabia. The business paper Hospodářské noviny detects a paradigm shift in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's thinking: "Her uncompromising stance on human rights won her a lot of support during her first term in office. She risked provoking the wrath of China, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush on Guantanamo Bay. The weapons deal with the Saudis is hardly compatible with this course on human rights. But Angela Merkel remains silent on the subject - officially because the decisions of the Federal Security Council are top secret, but unofficially because this deal is simply indefensible in the eyes of the public."

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