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Joseph de Weck is a fellow in the European Security Initiative of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Emmanuel Macron: Der revolutionäre Präsident (2021).
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A Germany Stuck in the Mud
It’s not just reliance on Russian energy that’s keeping Germany from a real change in its stance toward Vladimir Putin.