![]() Getting Germany to beef up its military and meet NATO’s 2 percent spending level has been a goal of the U.S. “Congratulations,” one former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO told Lambrecht. In an Atlantic Council virtual event with German Minister of Defense Christine Lambrecht, the attitude toward German militarization was welcoming-even celebratory. This move toward Germany’s militarization has been largely applauded by the Western security establishment and in corporate media. Only a few months into office, Scholz, routinely described as “boring” (Germany’s Der Spiegel last year called him “Sleepy Scholz”), is reshaping German foreign policy and perhaps world politics as we know it. Once complete, this watershed moment will make Germany’s military budget the third largest in the world-coming after the United States and China but beating out the rest of the globe including countries like France, the United Kingdom, India, and even Russia. Germany’s militarization and rearmament come with considerable risks. Germany wants to make a 100 billion euro pledge in military investment, raising Germany’s military budget to 2 percent of its GDP, the highest level since the end of World War II. The Zeitenwende-a watershed moment, a changing of the times. Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stood before the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in an emergency gathering to announce the biggest change to German foreign policy since World War II.
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