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2022 - year of the Zeitenwende

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Jörg Luyken
Dec 28, 2022
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Dear Reader,

Olaf Scholz isn’t the most rhetorically gifted politician in the world. He is a dry and sober man who prefers the company of books to other people. But you have to give it to him. Zeitenwende, a term that he used to describe the post-invasion world of 2022, has come to define the year.

It has even become popular among Anglophone journalists,…

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