IMI-Aktuell 2017/144
Deutschland: Rücksichtslos
(14.03.2017)
Der i.d.R. keineswegs sonderlich deutschlandkritische Journalist Walter Russel Mead meldet sich im American Interest mit einem ungewöhnlich scharfen Verriss der deutschen Ostpolitik zu Wort: „The German establishment is not really aware of how ruthlessly, if unconsciously, nationalist German policy has actually become. Germany’s vision of the future of Eastern Europe, in which it passes from an era of Russian dominance to an era of integration into a German-dominated European order, isn’t just a vision of the rule of law spreading eastward. It is also, and especially from Russia’s point of view, a shift in power — in which Russia abandons its attempt to recover the power lost with the breakup of the Soviet Union and Germany consolidates its position as the leading state of Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic.“ (jw)