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Prof Triggernometry
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For the first time since 1945, Germany is behaving like a country that understands it can’t survive indefinitely on moral self-limitation, U.S. protection, and industrial inertia. The “apology tour” mentality, self-restraint, pacifism, and political masochism, is running straight into the realities of geopolitics.
For the first time in 80 years, Germany is quietly stepping back into the role that geography and history always assigned it: Europe’s central industrial engine and its shield against threats from the steppes. Decades of green-ideology energy policy weakened the country, gutted its industrial core, and left it dependent on Russian oil and gas. Now, with U.S. involvement in NATO becoming less guaranteed, Germany is recognizing that it can no longer survive on apology politics, wind turbines, and American protection. It needs real power, economic, military, and strategic, to secure its own future.
That’s why Germany is rearming, reforming its draft laws, rebuilding the Bundeswehr, and positioning itself to negotiate with Moscow from strength instead of dependency. Without the United States carrying the load, NATO inevitably shifts toward a Europe-led defense bloc, and Germany, with its location and industrial might, becomes the only realistic anchor. Whether Berlin admits it or not, the old pattern is reasserting itself: a stronger, self-reliant Germany emerging once again as Europe’s protector and its central power. It's beginning to look like the process has begun.
For the first time in 80 years, Germany is quietly stepping back into the role that geography and history always assigned it: Europe’s central industrial engine and its shield against threats from the steppes. Decades of green-ideology energy policy weakened the country, gutted its industrial core, and left it dependent on Russian oil and gas. Now, with U.S. involvement in NATO becoming less guaranteed, Germany is recognizing that it can no longer survive on apology politics, wind turbines, and American protection. It needs real power, economic, military, and strategic, to secure its own future.
That’s why Germany is rearming, reforming its draft laws, rebuilding the Bundeswehr, and positioning itself to negotiate with Moscow from strength instead of dependency. Without the United States carrying the load, NATO inevitably shifts toward a Europe-led defense bloc, and Germany, with its location and industrial might, becomes the only realistic anchor. Whether Berlin admits it or not, the old pattern is reasserting itself: a stronger, self-reliant Germany emerging once again as Europe’s protector and its central power. It's beginning to look like the process has begun.
