Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mitteleuropa, or why Germany is as responsible for the growing disaster in Ukraine as the USA

Contrary to the widely held view among political commentators, Angela Merkel is not doing Obama’s bidding on sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. She has her own policy which just happens to overlap with US policy in the region in some respects. This new German foreign policy is loaded with potential problems not only for Russia but for the EU and for the United States. Read on…

 

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