The minister has hardly got out of the limousine before she can see him. It shimmers brown-grey at the other end of the square. A vanishing point at the end of a line of soldiers lined up in front of her. Christine Lambrecht marches towards him. To the good news of the day. The only piece of good news this week before Christmas, when the bad news has the Secretary of Defense firmly in its grip. Once again.

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