from germany history i find it quite interesting that gabriele addressed that portion of germany's history so directly i used to be a salesman and this is what we would call objection handling presumably. anticipating donald trump tweet saying i'm not going to be a lectured about this from the likes of germany and also putting out a positive example you said it seemed like a gentle rebuke to donald trump in fact he said national ego ism is a worthless as an ordering principle for the twenty first century that language is not entirely gentle he didn't name the us but clearly national ego wisdom and putting one's own country first are code words for make america great again and america first so yes i think absolutely he's trying to put that positive example out there to say look the fact is viewing international relations as a zero sum game is a recipe for lose lose for all sides and we germans used to see it that way we all