Will Germany’s geopolitical awakening last?

Roderick Kefferpütz
5 min readMar 1, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken Berlin out of a longtime geopolitical stupor and shattered the notion of reasoning with the dictator in the Kremlin. For too many years, naïveté and business interests have defined German foreign policy. Now, a range of German politicians are undertaking a rite of penance.

Roderick Kefferpütz

Advisor and Writer on the changing geopolitical and economic world order. (www.roderickkefferpuetz.com )