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Germany’s emergence as a true global power, with a military to match its economy, will shape the future far more than the fate of Ukraine—or even Russia.
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The Anglophone media’s reporting on the Zeitenwende, as Germans call their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been belated and somewhat inappropriate in its affect: The New York Times, for example, waited until yesterday to chirp, “Good morning. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unexpectedly transformed Europe.((Foreign Affairs decided to import German goods for the purpose, see Sudha David-Wilp and Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, A New Germany: How Putin’s Aggression is Changing Berlin. Britons can still think, …
