Three questions for Josef Joffe : What is the world doing?

Make us a bit please hope: U.S. President Donald Trump is disempowered in 2019, right?
Santa Claus is coming in 2019 the same twice. Putin swears all the conquests and to the "flawless Democrat," as G. Schröder said Weis. China will never go back to stealing intellectual property. German politicians to scrap the sleeves of your word and still be concise and precise to the point. The witch adopted Hansel and Gretel, and bequeathed them her house. Water will flow uphill, and the DAX crack the 20 000. Trump will voluntarily leave the White house because the "Donald Show" bored him. His new motto: be noble, good and wise.

The Syrian Kurds ask Assad for help. Will you stand with someone against Erdogan?
It is an iron law applies: If You're a Kurd, You'll be sold and betrayed. Who wants to be among the Great, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, settled, and a state of their own, is taken advantage of and then on the Altar of the Mighty sacrificed; see also the fate of the Czechs in 1938. The Kurds have done their duty, and the main burden of the war against the IS worn. Now their independence is a noise factor that does not fit into the calculus of America and Russia. World politics is not a Charity Gala, but a cynical event, the device again and again to the Kurdish tragedy.

first word to the German seat in the UN security Council...
"Germany speaks", reported the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". The Belgium, Peru, Kuwait and ivory coast to do in the security Council. The Power belongs to the five veto powers: US, China, Russia, France, England. Of its size and economy, not to make Berlin more than Peru, but it has what counts, ultimately, veto power, and the military. Berlin will do what it does best. Foreign Minister Maas emphasizes placement, restraint, multilateralism, disarmament, peace. He may have a knack in a time where politics has a boom.

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Josef Joffe is editor of "time". Questions: Anna Sauerbrey