• German Realpolitik

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 17 12:22:44 2025
    How Europe found a workaround to get Trump to help Ukraine

    With a heavy dose of Realpolitik, Germany and other European countries
    got the U.S. administration to aid Ukraine without directly
    confronting Putin.
    ...
    European leaders have rapidly learned to work with the American
    president they have rather than wishing for another.

    There's no greater proof of that than in the gushing response to
    President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. will indirectly
    provide weapons for Ukraine by allowing European countries to buy them themselves while NATO coordinates deliveries.
    ...
    In reality, the key decisions had already been taken in Europe, where
    European leaders, faced with Trump's ambivalence toward arming Ukraine
    and Russia's escalating summer offensive in the embattled country,
    knew they had to act fast.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-donald-trump-weapons-aid-war-in-ukraine-nato/

    Trump's ambivalence

    Chickenshit, as some would say...

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