Is it goodbye to 'pacifist' Germany?

German foreign policy thinking changed dramatically on 24 February 2022, but where is it headed?

For a long time, observers complained about a lack of geo-strategic thinking in the German political class, demonstrated most clearly in its underestimation of the Russian military threat and an ever-growing dependency on energy resources from Putin's militaristic authoritarian regime.

Key decisions of the last decades were based on premises, now revealed to have been naïve at best....