There’s a germane Polandball cartoon from the beginning of Trump’s last term:
January 20 2017
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3049545a-42a2-48f3-8920-53218d0a33fe.png
Except instead of putting those things in a box he is just chucking them into a fire
“Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.”
With the BND, I’d worry very much about what they think is “the best”.
I hear there are places in Berlin that charge a small amount of money give you a towel for such fantasies.
Sure he does. Because the German “go-home-service” can’t find their ass in a brown paper bag without their big buddies from the US.
Given the history of the post WW2 German intelligence service, I’d have a much more sinister suspicion, when the head of the BND hopes that the current US in its current, and most likely future condition for a long time, will be on the same side again soon.