The Three Blunders of German Geopolitics
It is tempting to note that over the past 120 years, Germany has made three enormous geopolitical blunders that have caused considerable damage to Europe, with war the logical conclusion: Pan-Germanism, which made the German elites believe that they could build an empire that would dominate Europe; Nazism, which made them believe that an empire based on race could dominate the world; most recently, a taste for peace and prosperity that made them sacrifice their army, and this policy of energy cooperation with Russia that led to forget that economic interdependence does not make for diplomacy; it is a double-edged … Lire plus