![]() We are also getting a more powerful role in the world. The first is the EU - Germany is the most important player inside the EU since France is in decline politically and economically. I am not sure whether Germany can deal with this new powerful position - the reasons being that we never learned it and never wanted it and yet, now we have two major power-related problems. The problem for Germany will be that Germany now has a totally new role - it becomes more independent, but also takes on a leadership role inside the European Union and inside the free world.Ĭan Germany really assume a more dominant role? Now, with Trump, we have something you can really call a brutal isolationist position, where he says: 'I am not interested in what is happening in the rest of the world, I am only interested in destroying and I am only interested in what is happening in the United States.' The US has always stressed that they have this close alliance because they needed Germany as a factor of stability in Europe and a very important factor in the EU. Siebo Janssen: Germany, at first just West Germany and now the entire country, was protected by the US against the Soviet or the Russian threat. ![]() Will this give Germany room to act more independently on the world stage, with America pulling back? DW: President Donald Trump has made clear he would pursue a more isolationist foreign policy, and he also warned that NATO states should pull their own weight when it comes to defense. ![]()
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