Incoming Ph.D. student @CEMFInews | currently @IFC_org | previously at Banque Centrale du Luxembourg | Tweets about sports and economics
Apr 14, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
While this statement by 🇩🇪 Ambassador to the U.S. Emily Haber sounds positive and agreeable enough, I think it is too optimistic about recent 🇩🇪 policy and puts wrong emphases at every turn. Here’s why in a 🧵. 1/n.
1. The „sea change“ in 🇩🇪 foreign, security, and energy policy (exporting arms to 🇺🇦 and “cutting“ 🇷🇺 energy imports) is overstated. Of course, policy is changing. However, 🇩🇪 provided military supplies to war-torn areas in the past. The shift is not paradigmatic. 2/n
