Timeline for To what does US Army Lt. General H. R. McMaster refer saying that Germany's Social Democratic Party has a 'deep and unnatural affinity' for Russia?
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| May 31 at 9:56 | comment | added | SMSTJ | @convert Ok so this is extremly technical BUUUUT: It was know that he was a Spy and Brandt was told about it. However Brandt was given the "choice" to either have him arrested or to leave him be and slightly reduce his acces to not cause suspission in the USSR, so that the BND might intercept/use his communications to Moscow to gain usefull intelligence. When Brandt was briefed about this however, his advisors HEAVYLY leaned into the second option leading too Brandt picking it. | |
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| Mar 4, 2022 at 11:52 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @convert I assume so, but the general idea is compelling. | |
| Mar 4, 2022 at 11:49 | comment | added | convert | @Peter - Reinstate Monica Brand has not tolerated that spy, this is a myth. | |
| Mar 4, 2022 at 9:49 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @jwenting I didn't think of that until now then but: If, in a situation of mutual paranoia like the Cold War, you want to convince the other side of your peaceful intentions -- one of the best means could be to tolerate a spy in your team who could report first-hand. They may not believe your official statements but they would believe their own source reporting from internal deliberations. Especially if you are not in a position to make a unilateral first step. | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 21:59 | comment | added | convert | @jwenting It was not a sowiet spy, but from East Germany. | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 13:12 | comment | added | Oliver Mason | @jwenting That was Willy Brandt, not Schmidt. | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 12:49 | comment | added | jwenting | and then of course there's Helmut Schmidt, who had very close ties to the USSR (including (probably knowingly) employing a Soviet spy as his personal secretary). | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 10:34 | comment | added | convert | @uhoh So as far I understood it, it´s unnatural from his point of view. | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 10:31 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @uhoh It's unnatural from an American standpoint only. | |
| Mar 3, 2022 at 8:21 | comment | added | quarague | This is one aspect but one should note that Gerhard Schroeder was heavily critized for his pro Putin stance during the last couple of years even by members of the SPD. | |
| S Mar 2, 2022 at 23:07 | history | suggested | H Huang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2022 at 22:36 | comment | added | uhoh |
+1 but I still don't understand McMaster's deliberate choice of the word unnatural; can you include something about that in your answer post? What would be so unnatural about it? Thanks!
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| Mar 2, 2022 at 22:33 | history | edited | convert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2022 at 22:26 | history | answered | convert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |