The largest European military donor is Germany, with €17.7 billion since February 2022, of which €9.4 billion has been allocated. The negative standing of the present German government coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals doesn’t come as a surprise. The German chancellor’s historic 2022 Zeitenwende speech and the bitter reality that it has not had much impact … [Read more...] about Germany’s Security Failure
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Did Germany Inadvertently Encourage Putin’s War?
Three days after Putin’s war against Ukraine started, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a special session of the Bundestag, proclaimed a Zeitenwende, in the sense of a historic shift. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shattered many fundamental convictions of German politics, including “change through trade” (Wandel durch Handel), which had prevailed for decades. In a … [Read more...] about Did Germany Inadvertently Encourage Putin’s War?