Germany

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Zakharova Made A Surprisingly Good Point About Poland

One can oppose both Polish meddling in Ukraine and EU meddling in Poland since what’s happening in Poland is no less consequential than what happened in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published a detailed post about Poland on Telegram that’s worth reading. It’s surprisingly informative considering that she […]

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United On China, Divided At Home

France and Germany have long approached China differently. Berlin, whose carmakers and machinery exporters depend on the Chinese market, favoured engagement and was wary of confrontation. Paris, more concerned with industrial sovereignty, pushed for tougher defensive tools. Now the two largest economies in the European Union are moving together. In […]

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Zelensky Lack Of Judgment Attacking Trump

If even one of the major European governments turns over, Ukraine’s lifeline will be severed. Zelensky’s harsh words about US President Donald Trump was an emotional response after Zelensky deliberately thwarted Trump’s request that Ukraine not strike Russian refineries. Unfortunately Zelensky is making matters worse, and Ukraine’s future is now […]

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Why Were The German-Russian Foreign Ministers’ Talks A Dud Unlike The Belarusian-Polish Ones?

The German Foreign Minister only had domestic political motives for talking to his Russian counterpart while the Polish one had military-security motives for talking to his Belarusian counterpart. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed disappointment after his meeting with his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, which was the first between their […]

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Russia Could Make An Energy Truce Conditional On Resuming Pipeline Exports To Europe

Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]

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Sunday’s Elections Could Decide Merz’s Fate

rl Friedrich Merz has been chancellor for just 16 months, and he’s already facing the kind of electoral test that could determine whether he serves out anything close to a full term. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania went to the polls Sunday in elections that, on paper, are regional […]

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Reading The Warning Signs Around Chancellor Merz

Political power in Germany rarely collapses overnight. It erodes first – in lost votes, in failed personnel reshuffles, in polling numbers that keep sliding without a clear floor – and only later does that erosion translate into an actual change of leadership. That’s the framework German political analysts are now […]