
Predictions for the world in 2023
World Review from the New Statesman
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German Foreign Policy in 2022 - The Flight to Vendor?
I think that Nordstrom II was never going to survive, I think, the events of 24th of February. The actual underlying German defence budget won't reach NATO's 2% of GDP targets now until 2025. Remarkably, the government here is still dragging its feet on some crucial military exports to Ukraine. But yet you have shots pushing through a sale of a stake in Hamburg's harbour to a Chinese state-backed firm. So will people actually start to in Berlin in strategic circles start to think differently about their country's role and actually act on different impulses? And that has been my hot take on Dijkenwender. It should be an integral part of this, I've
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