According to researchers, the German line is more realistic than Finland: “It is wishful thinking that the United States will remain involved in Europe’s security.”
Berlin Germany has changed its attitudes to the United States as an ally radically, up to 180 degrees.
To this day’s federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been a solid transatlanticist, as has a spectrum of democratic parties throughout Germany.
Now Merz describes the situation as a “watershed” and says that “in the current environment we can no longer trust the United States”, an expert in defense strategy Ben Schreer List.
He leads the Institute of International Strategic Research in Berlin.
“They are as strong statements from the German Federal Chancellor as they can be,” Schreer estimates in an interview with .
Germany is completely newly redefined by its security situation.
Last Tuesday, the leaders of the ruling parties suddenly decided that the country’s famous debt brake would be dismantled due to armedization. In addition, Germany is taking on new debt hundreds of billions of euros – if not over a trillion – mainly for safety.
Germany desperately needs new weapons, army staff and office space such as barracks.
– Of course, the goal is still to keep the United States involved in European security. But more and more to Germany is dawning that it is wishful thinking, Schreer says.
Watch the video which three reasons are behind the German line change:
Here are the reasons for the reasons:
1. US president Donald Trump is clearly settled Vladimir Putin half in the Ukrainian war. It is also a direct safety threat to Germany and other European countries.
2. Trump is threatening to be punished and literally declares that “the EU is established to fuck Americans.” In this way, the United States is a threat to the economy of European countries.
3. The current US leaders would welcome the far -right parties to government in Germany and elsewhere. Thus, the United States has also become an ideological threat to Europe.
Finland is on different lines
Thus, from Central Europe, the confidence of the Finnish government in the United States also seems to be a wishful thinking.
Schreer believes that the leaders of Finland and some other European countries are trying to avoid “falling oil into fire” in their optimism.
“Perhaps the goal is to make some kind of contract with the United States before it breaks all the ties,” Schreer describes.
Prime minister Petteri Orpo thinks Finland can also trust the president Donald Trump Stateside.
President Alexander Stubbin In turn, at EPN’s number one morning that there were no “indications” of the US withdrawal from NATO.
“Merz is closer to the truth”
The goal of Finns is probably to try to reassure people, while Germany’s Merz is closer to the truth, says a well -known researcher of German National Defense College Carlo Masala Tuesday for foreign correspondents in Berlin.
Already at the Munich Security Conference, the United States made it clear that they are no longer the primary guarantor of European security.
– That’s quite clear. It is reported that the question of pulling American troops from the Baltic States, Poland and Kosovo is part of Russia and the United States, Masala says.
In Masala’s view, the Defense Association’s NATO’s impairment of Article 5, or reciprocal security guarantees, is an essential matter.
As the United States plans to reduce its presence, only the security guarantee of American nuclear weapons remains.
“What about the United States to be ready for nuclear standing with Russia because of the release of Helsinki,” Masala asks.
Masala points out that already in his first presidential term Trump saidthat he would not risk the “Montenegro” caused by the Third World War.
From all of this, it can be concluded that today’s US is hardly ready to defend Europe.