Germany is essential in all this. It was germany, under chancellor mercle, that was leading the charge on trying to deal with eri the ukran crisis. Germany has caused an awful lot of problems by basically making all kinds of decisions on its energy mix where it was become dependent on russian gas. And we've been warning germany since the soviet period, since the sixties and seventies and eighties,. when all the discussions were first made about gas pipe lines - they're getting themselves into trouble. They should be calling out any more world war too. I mean, how did we get into World War II? In the first instance
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here, is part memoir, part reflection on how factors ranging from deindustrialisation to disenfranchisement over the course of decades have left a swathe of voters in nations such as the US, UK and Russia, open to populist policies and strongman leaders.
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