{"id":33832,"date":"2025-02-20T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/hold-your-breath-and-look-to-germany-its-election-could-decide-the-fate-of-europe-and-the-uk-martin-kettle\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:59:52","slug":"hold-your-breath-and-look-to-germany-its-election-could-decide-the-fate-of-europe-and-the-uk-martin-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/hold-your-breath-and-look-to-germany-its-election-could-decide-the-fate-of-europe-and-the-uk-martin-kettle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe \u2013 and the UK | Martin Kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the country holds out against the Trump-assisted AfD, it shows rightwing populism can be resisted in Europe\u2019s heartland<\/p>\n<p>Even in less stressed times, Britain always pays too much attention to the US and too little to Germany. In today\u2019s torrid circumstances, that imbalance is perhaps excusable. After all, Donald Trump, it now turns out, really means it. He is more interested in US plunder and profit from places like Gaza, Ukraine and Greenland than in upholding a just peace or good order.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the inattention towards Germany needs to end. Britain\u2019s politicians, like German politicians, are rewiring their worldviews amid a political gale. But Germany, though no longer a great power, is nevertheless a great nation. Indeed, it may be more than ever the essential European nation now, after the Trump administration\u2019s very public trashing of the entire Atlantic alliance seemed to leave Europe to its own devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/20\/germany-election-europe-uk-trump-afd-populism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the country holds out against the Trump-assisted AfD, it shows rightwing populism can be resisted in Europe\u2019s heartland Even in less stressed times, Britain always pays too much attention to the US and too little to Germany. In today\u2019s torrid circumstances, that imbalance is perhaps excusable. After all, Donald Trump, it now turns out, &#8230; <a title=\"Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe \u2013 and the UK | Martin Kettle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/hold-your-breath-and-look-to-germany-its-election-could-decide-the-fate-of-europe-and-the-uk-martin-kettle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe \u2013 and the UK | Martin Kettle\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}