The return of Dr Strangelove
A few days ago, US President Donald Trump announced he would be withdrawing 5 000 soldiers from Germany and suspending the 2024 agreement, struck between then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and then-President Joe Biden, to station American intermediate-range missiles in Germany. It’s not yet certain whether the troops will return to the US or be redeployed elsewhere in Europe, or whether the planned stationing of those weapons, in particular the Tomahawk cruise missiles, will genuinely be abandoned. As so often with Trump’s erratic decision-making, key questions around what this will mean in practice and how it will be implemented remain unanswered.Weiterlesen...




