{"id":35214,"date":"2025-03-06T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/the-us-embrace-of-russia-is-an-existential-threat-to-the-eu-germany-must-step-up-to-save-it-catherine-de-vries\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:19:37","slug":"the-us-embrace-of-russia-is-an-existential-threat-to-the-eu-germany-must-step-up-to-save-it-catherine-de-vries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/the-us-embrace-of-russia-is-an-existential-threat-to-the-eu-germany-must-step-up-to-save-it-catherine-de-vries\/","title":{"rendered":"The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it | Catherine De Vries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To counter the crisis caused by Trump, Friedrich Merz has little choice but to abandon decades of military and economic caution<\/p>\n<p>In February 1945, three world leaders \u2013 Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin \u2013 met in Crimea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/from-the-archive-blog\/2020\/feb\/10\/yalta-conference-shapes-the-postwar-world-february-1945\">Yalta conference<\/a>, to discuss the new world order they would implement after the soon-to-end second world war.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller nations were given no say in deciding their fate. The Soviet sphere of influence would infest eastern Europe for decades and US foreign policy dominated the second half of the 20th century. Churchill resisted the end of the UK\u2019s global empire and independence for Britain\u2019s colonies came piecemeal; they were let go with bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine De Vries is professor of political science at Bocconi University in Milan<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/06\/us-russia-eu-germany-donald-trump-friedrich-merz-military-economic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To counter the crisis caused by Trump, Friedrich Merz has little choice but to abandon decades of military and economic caution In February 1945, three world leaders \u2013 Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin \u2013 met in Crimea for the Yalta conference, to discuss the new world order they would implement after the &#8230; <a title=\"The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it | Catherine De Vries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/the-us-embrace-of-russia-is-an-existential-threat-to-the-eu-germany-must-step-up-to-save-it-catherine-de-vries\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it | Catherine De Vries\">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-35214","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\/35214","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=35214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}