... top five military spenders—the United States, China, Russia, Germany and India—accounted for 60 per cent of the global total, with combined spending of $1635 billion”.[9]
The propaganda is in full swing—everywhere, it should be noted, in the USA, in Europe and in Russia. Does Germany seem particularly susceptible or why do the majority of Germans seem to be in favor of supplying weapons to Ukraine, a country that is supposedly defending our democracy? Emotions and fears take over and common sense is switched off. After all,...
... economically, demanding concessions under fairness pretexts. Germany must eschew illusions of mutual benefit, instead forging a "Germany First" path—restoring sovereignty, industry, and independence from Brussels and Washington through strategic self-reliance,... ....de/politik/ausland/2025/mit-diesen-zoellen-ueberzieht-trump-die-ganze-welt/
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. European Parliament (2025). Handel zwischen der EU und den USA: mögliche Auswirkungen neuer Zölle auf Europa. URL:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/de/article/20250210STO26801/handel-zwischen-der-eu-und-den-usa-mogliche-auswirkungen-neuer-zolle-auf-europa
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... UK’s position is still unclear, but there are suspicions that its decision to leave the European Union may have been a means to have access to direct control over the entire Western bloc, rather than to pursue an independent role in global affairs. Germany, on the other hand, appears to be the clear winner in intra-European competition, having rather successfully navigated economic challenges while balancing the preservation of its industrial base.
Germany is significantly more economically powerful ...
... to the relatively low costs of manufacturing and operating them, and the trend towards lightweight satellites and partial reusability. The old leading players were, in turn, spurred on to step up the development of a new generation of carrier rockets.... ... spread of lightweight launch vehicles throughout the world (even individual European states such as
the United Kingdom
and
Germany
have started their own programmes).
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All this could paint a grim picture of the sky being transformed into ...
... the world towards a new multilateralism. They are too used to asymmetrical interdependence and they are tempted to use their comparative advantages in the format of bilateral relations with their relatively smaller and weaker partners. Countries like Germany, which have already accumulated a lot of experience in various formats of multilateralism, might be in a better position to pioneer new multilateral models. This is why the ongoing German discourse on multilateralism is particularly important ...
... contractor, but other firms fear finding themselves under U.S. sanctions.
American pressure is greatly felt in Europe. Last August,
a group of U.S. Republican senators
vowed to impose “crushing legal and economic sanctions” on the Port of Sassnitz in Germany. The USA also slowed down the project by putting pressure on the countries concerned by the route, such as Denmark, which was the last one to issue authorization for the pipeline to cross its territorial waters. As one of the major U.S. allies in Europe,
...
On July 14, 2020, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung held an online discussion on the U.S. Presidential Election: what implications will the election results have on relations with Russia and Germany? Experts from RIAC, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University took part in the workshop.
On July 14, 2020, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung held an online discussion on the U.S. Presidential ...
... coronavirus?
Everyone knows that the virus is at its most dangerous when contracted by elderly people. But in everyday life, it’s not the pensioners who suffer the most from the pandemic, but the youth. Yes, of course, there have been more than twenty thousand deaths around the world – these deaths have almost exclusively been of the elderly and the very elderly. But the pandemic has changed the lives of tens and even hundreds of millions of young people, and to a greater extent than the lives of any ...
... to keep NATO members safe, also from themselves. NATO was never only about Russia.
Andrey Kortunov:
How to Stop NATO
Today Germany is a great and constructive neighbor in Europe. But Europe sadly still sees other inner-neighbor relations, which unfortunately ... ... nationality of weapons Turkey should wish to buy, actually).
An important discussion can start to revolve around whether the USA still belongs to NATO. Right-sizing is not enlarging; it is a change of configuration. Such a change in configuration is possible ...
The EU/Germany are now on the side of democracy and social justice, and the Anglo-Americans throw themselves and all the rest into the dark Hobbesian world of the period between two wars. How should Russia position herself in this context?
Power is always ...
