Is the German Health Ministry a good enough source for you?
"Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.""
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-trie...
"Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.""
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-trie...
Not that Trump wants the Vaccine "only for the US"
The truth, like with anything, is probably in the middle. In that what ever nation developed the vaccine their citizens will be the ones to get access to it first, logic dictates that if the vaccine is develop in Germany it will be distributed around Germany first, then other nations shortly there after (probably EU nations next, then the UK, then the US which could be weeks later). Most likely The American government would want that to happen in the US first.
The story, really, isn't about truth. It's about trust. The German government clearly does not trust the USA to share a vaccine. And why would they? Everyone who's been watching US foreign policy for the last three years knows the "America First" bent of its chief executive. They know the kind of xenophobic stuff that gets said on its "state television station" every day. They can read polls, and know that the political base of the ruling party would genuinely cheer for a situation where the USA had exclusive access to a vaccine.
So they don't trust the US to control a biochem company. That's a problem, but it's not a problem with this particular event (realistically we're going to get a ton of vaccine variants from different labs -- vaccine development is hardly rocket surgery, as it were). It's a problem with the way US (really republican) foreign policy has been positioned in the modern world.
And it's kind of a disaster.
So far there is not much Trump as done in regards to foreign policy that I disagree with
Except for culturing a situation where one of our closest allies justifiably doesn't trust us to help them out, even in straightforward ways, in the biggest international crisis of the last 70 years, you mean.
We've come a fucking long way from the Berlin airlift, huh? The biggest disaster isn't Trump, really. It's the realization that his poison goes so deep in the american psyche. No one will think of us the same again.
Offer a few thousand green-cards at random at embassies around the third world.
You will be forgiven in less than 5 minutes.
Basically, we used to be the teachers in the schoolyard. Now we're a ramshackle fort of sneering kids trying to keep people out of "our" stuff.
That is not the lens I am seeing it through.
Rather, where I live NO ONE could care less about your world leadership or whether you are or ever were the teachers, blah, blah, blah.
All of us out here will bitch and moan about the USA, but give anyone of us a ticket to the USA (especially if our family can come along) and we'll take it in a heartbeat.
You aren't our teachers, you are the bank.
Seriously.
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article206555143/Corona-USA-w...
Some stupid and insane stories about him are certainly false, but many of them appear to be true.
Worse, given his tendencies to punish his perceived political enemies, if such a vaccine were available before November 2020, it is very likely he would have restricted the drug to his supporters (i.e., political officials, donors, and Red states) in a blatant attempt to control the outcome of the election.
In my humble opinion, given the gravity of the current situation, such "news stories" are in very poor taste. Im personally a whole lot more concerned about the oldest and youngest members of my family. What I don't need is some for-profit media entity trying to drive clicks like this right now.
Until January of 2021, Donald Trump is the President we have, for better or worse. The time to stop political nonsense has passed. This is not a time for division. There will be plenty of time for this BS later.