No Regrets

Two Interviews, No Regrets: Talking About Putin’s Russia With a Former German Chancellor

“The New York Times admitted that it was wrong over the Iraq war; I respect that,” he told me and smiled. The implication was clear: He had been right, famously keeping Germany out of the war. (In a 2004 assessment of the publication’s reporting on the lead-up to, and the early stages of, the Iraq War, Times editors found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been.)

short on substance, long on spin - as expected. essentially it's a hit piece.