Can Germany Really Become Europe's Great Military Power?
Simon Whistler · July 25, 2023 · 24 min video · Europe & NATO
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It was perhaps the most significant speech given by a German Chancellor in decades. On February 27, 2022, three days after Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine, Ola Sholes stood before the Bundestag and declared a "Ziteenwender," a turning point.
Based with a newly aggressive Russia on the EU's doorstep, Sholes committed to overhaul Germany's military, to surge defense spending to levels not seen since the Cold War, to transform his nation, in short, into the continent's greatest military power.
At the time, "Ziteenwender" was held as a historic watershed, a moment when Germany finally awoke from its long slumber to assume the mantle of Europe's natural leader. Bots water today, though, and there are more questions than progress. Both things are slowly moving in the right direction.
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