German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had unusually strong words for his American ally this week. The US clearly had no strategy for the Iran war, he said bluntly. "The problem with conflicts like this is always you don't just have to get in," he said, speaking during a meeting with German students, "you have to get out again". "We saw that very painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years - we saw it in Iraq," he went on. Refusing to pull any punches, he said that the entire country of the USA was being "humiliated" by Iran’s state leadership "especially by these...