Today’s title question was both asked and answered yesterday by our friend Jim Geraghty at National Review. The title of his piece was, “Germany’s not the reliable NATO ally Joe Biden makes it out to be.” Well, that seems fairly straightforward, but what’s the reasoning behind that conclusion? We work pretty closely with Germany in both military and diplomatic matters and have for a very long time. West Germany was accepted into NATO in 1955 and that was expanded following the country’s reunification in 1990. There have been some bumps along the way, but the Germans have generally been team players. But Geraghty lists six reasons (or “problems”) with Germany that lead him to believe that the German government isn’t quite so committed to restraining Russian expansion as we might like to believe.
Back in 2022, Conan O’Brien quipped, “Well, I’ve officially lived a long life…
