As the former high-ranking East German Communist Party member, it might have been her Retaliation Against the West(which brought her home country down in Oct.1990).
If so, it makes a perfect sense; she very successfully sabotaged her former enemy from within.
Because of the policy she implemented, the NATO's core member states are now suffering; their overall sovereignty has been rapidly and dramatically eroded.
From her perspective, Mission Accomplished...
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