Could the editor correct the headline “New German President”. The German President has nearly no power as the Chancellor is the head of the German Government. I guess somebody corrected the headline of this essay.
Jürg Gassmann
2 years ago
If Germany is expected to care for its own defence, Germany will also set the terms. So long as the US’ stated policy objective and best-case scenario is a war between Russia and Germany, don’t expect Germany to be too enthusiastic about supporting that objective.
The Pershing II controversy was about an all too transparent US plan to wage a nuclear war against the Soviet Union on German soil, both sides of the German-German border. Ms. Bärbock’s Greens rose to political prominence on the back of that controversy. Don’t expect the sentiment to have gone away.
At that time the East/West border state was West Germany. That is no longer the case so I cannot see any way in which that would be the current plan. Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine may have more to be concerned about than Germany. Poland pays its dues to NATO.
Back then where else would you have fought it? Any further south or west would mean that Germany had already been overrun.
Could the editor correct the headline “New German President”. The German President has nearly no power as the Chancellor is the head of the German Government. I guess somebody corrected the headline of this essay.
If Germany is expected to care for its own defence, Germany will also set the terms. So long as the US’ stated policy objective and best-case scenario is a war between Russia and Germany, don’t expect Germany to be too enthusiastic about supporting that objective.
The Pershing II controversy was about an all too transparent US plan to wage a nuclear war against the Soviet Union on German soil, both sides of the German-German border. Ms. Bärbock’s Greens rose to political prominence on the back of that controversy. Don’t expect the sentiment to have gone away.
At that time the East/West border state was West Germany. That is no longer the case so I cannot see any way in which that would be the current plan. Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine may have more to be concerned about than Germany. Poland pays its dues to NATO.
Back then where else would you have fought it? Any further south or west would mean that Germany had already been overrun.