On both sides of the Atlantic foreign-policy analysts expressed astonishment at the swiftness and severity of the international response
fleeting days after the unifying attacks of September 11th 2001, the century has not been kind to expectations that the world’s democracies would work together effectively.
On both sides of the Atlantic, foreign-policy analysts expressed astonishment at the swiftness and severity of the international response, including new sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s economy by. With China falling silent on Russia’s action and few countries besides the likes of Syria rallying behind it, America moved to underscore Mr Putin’s isolation.
Claudia Major, of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a think-tank, calls Mr Scholz’s proposals “a revolution in German defence policy”. She says the announcements represent a recognition of the failure of the co-operative security policy Germany had pursued with Russia since the end of the cold war. It had done so in the belief that talking and trading with Russia would lead it to respect human rights and embrace a peaceful role within a community of nations.
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