Germany’s Promised Military Patronage of Ukraine Ramps Up Its Regional Competition with Poland

Germany’s Promised Military Patronage of Ukraine Ramps Up Its Regional Competition with Poland

The recent worsening of Poland’s ties with Germany and Ukraine, which is partly attributable to the ruling party’s electioneering strategy, just led to those two entering into a military partnership. Germany’s promised military patronage of Ukraine poses no threat to Poland, but is intended to help Kiev diversify from its disproportionate strategic dependence on Warsaw…

Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair and Scholz’s Pate

Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair and Scholz’s Pate

It was a shallow affair. Reputed to have exceptionally poor hairdo, the figure who became one of Europe’s, and indeed one of the globe’s most lasting and influential politicians, inspired memes aplenty for what she sported on her bonce. The teases, the parodying, the satire, began to bite. Stylists were sought in an attempt to…

Poland Complicated Its Regional Leadership Plans by Trying to Fleece Germany

Poland Complicated Its Regional Leadership Plans by Trying to Fleece Germany

Germany can now claim to be a more reliable long-term military partner for Ukraine while Lithuania will partially replace the role that Poland could have played in repairing Ukrainian tanks, both outcomes of which complicate Warsaw’s regional leadership plans but it has nobody to blame for this but itself. A German Defense Ministry spokesperson announced…