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Politico (20 January 2022)

BY MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG

Over the past decade, the idea that Germany could no longer fully rely on the U.S. for security amid America’s “pivot” to Asia became accepted wisdom among German leaders.  

The unfolding crisis in Ukraine reveals that reality cuts both ways.  

Germany’s allies hoped Olaf Scholz’s coalition, which includes the Russia-critical Greens, would back away from the accommodative policies toward Moscow that marked the Angela Merkel era. Recent days have shown such optimism to be misplaced.

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