OPINION: Germany’s foot-dragging on Ukraine aid threatens to solidify its reputation as a country that benefits greatly from the current global order but won’t do much to defend it.
What’s the matter with Germany? Ukraine and many of Berlin’s European neighbours would like to know.fuels the perception it is a country that benefits from the current global order but won’t do much to defend it.
The annoyance is palpable in Kyiv, Warsaw and other eastern European capitals that worry less about provoking Putin than about defeating him. Former chancellor Angela Merkel has come under criticism for allowing Germany to become so dependent on Vladimir Putin’s energy exports.None of these critiques are groundless. Still, it’s a mistake to make Germany the villain in a geopolitical morality play.
There was a time when “the German problem” didn’t refer to a hesitant, quasi-pacifist country that spent too little on defence. It referred to a country that was the terror of Europe because it repeatedly sought to seize geopolitical primacy by force.
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