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Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right.