Best bit last, as always, but German chancellor Scholz, stubbornly resisting to start the very possible legal process of making the clearly fascist AfD illegal?
He wouldn't be chancellor without them. Nobody would have accepted a right wing nut like him to run for the social democrats. None of all the weird fascist shit they did would have been possible. They need the fascists as much as they despise their style, but style doesn't mean they won't share chauvinist ideals.