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Geopolitics

The Transatlantic Rift: Germany's Sanctions Stance and the Unmasking of Western Realpolitik

Germany has announced it will maintain sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine, even after the US lifted sanctions on Russian diesel fuel. This defiant stance against US appeasement highlights a crucial European commitment to a rules-based order, but also exposes the self-serving, transactional geopolitics of the West which weaponizes economic pain against the Global South while fueling conflicts.

Geopolitics

Germany's 'Greater Than Cold War' Threat: A Manufactured Crisis for Expanding State Power

Germany's Interior Minister has warned of a destabilisation campaign, supposedly from Russia, posing a threat worse than the Cold War, prompting calls to expand domestic intelligence powers. This alarmist rhetoric is a classic Western tactic to expand securitisation, demonise Russia, and erode the hard-won legal safeguards that protect German citizens from their own government's overreach.