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President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working.
The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in the Bundestag, and the party’s leader, Friedrich Merz, pledges that once he becomes chancellor, “My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.”
The legislature’s largest opposition party, the hard-right Alternative for Germany, might not agree with Merz’s support for Ukraine — it’s often accused of favoring Russia — but it too wants Germany to have more military independence and will pressure Merz to live up to his words.
Surely this means disaster for NATO — and won’t that be catastrophic for Europe?
In fact, a Germany with greater strength of its own is exactly what NATO needs.
Responsibility for defending Europe was shared more fairly between America and European allies during the Cold War, when West Germany, the U.K. and others maintained significant military establishments of their own.
But in the decades since the Soviet Union’s implosion, Europe’s most advanced nations…
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