- Don’t say it too loudly, but Germany is on a war-like footing.
- The US has also held back heavy weapons so far, and while German aid trails in both absolute and GDP terms, the Kiel Institute estimates that Germany has made good on more of its military commitment than the US.
- An end to the war would be only the beginning of a new set of challenges, from figuring out what a relationship with Russia looks like thereafter, to coexisting with China, to making good on talk of boosting trans-Atlantic economic resilience.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets US Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Berlin amid war 16.09.2022

