Why does Biden court Merkel? @ConStelz: In the long, hybrid struggle that looms with a China seeking to reshape the global order, Europe’s commercial, technological, regulatory strengths indispensable to US.
And Germany is Europe's center of gravity ft.com/content/94b7a0…
And Germany is Europe's center of gravity ft.com/content/94b7a0…
"Of Merkel’s three would-be successors, only the Greens’ Annalena Baerbock appears to have fully grasped what the downturn in Europe’s geopolitical climate requires of Germany."
Laschet and Scholz are "fighting straw men of their own invention, such as the notion that the US is trying to force Europe to “decouple” from China. In reality, it is China that is decoupling from the west."
"Trump’s raging hostility forced Germany to examine the unhealthy aspects of its dependency on America. Biden, in contrast, treats Germany as a peer nation. It almost seems as though that is too much for Germans to handle."
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