Now it is buying tanks, building suicide drones, deploying troops abroad and committing €460 billion to rearmament
Isaac Stanley-Becker in The Atlantic shows how a nation built on “never again” is preparing for war again. 1/
Lt. Gen. Freuding says the old U.S.-led order is “really cut off.”
During Trump’s freeze on Ukraine weapons, Germany received no warning. German officers now hunt for information through their embassy because their Pentagon contacts have gone silent. 2/
Berlin’s answer is the Zeitenwende — Germany’s declared “turning point.”
The government vows to build “the strongest army in Europe” and, for the first time since WWII, is permanently stationing 5,000 troops abroad — Panzerbrigade 45 in Lithuania by 2027. 3/