Olaf Scholz and his Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, represent differing visions of how to deal with the Kremlin. Those differences could come to a head soon.
Germany needs to snap out of the cold-warish mentatility. This is a serious situation that needs to be approached beyond short-sighted approaches. I agree with the Greens. This is not joke, really! And good thing that Biden is in power and not Trump, otherwise, the later would give his buddy free license to walk all over the EU. During Trump's government, most military contracts- including Afghanistan, were given to private security firms who did nothing to help the people of Afghanistan, only profited from the money of taxpayers.
Germany needs to snap out of the cold-warish mentatility. This is a serious situation that needs to be approached beyond short-sighted approaches. I agree with the Greens. This is not joke, really! And good thing that Biden is in power and not Trump, otherwise, the later would give his buddy free license to walk all over the EU. During Trump's government, most military contracts- including Afghanistan, were given to private security firms who did nothing to help the people of Afghanistan, only profited from the money of taxpayers.
Interesting piece yesterday by Josef Joffe in Americanpurpose.com - puts Germany in its rather insignificant place