When foreign policy starts to look less like long-range strategy and more like a high-stakes personality clash, it’s worth pausing and asking whether the adults are still in the room. That’s the uncomfortable backdrop to President Trump’s reported order to withdraw roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, a move unfolding amid a heated dispute with…
Germany’s Election: A Wake-Up Call for Conservatives—and the West
Germany’s latest election results weren’t just a routine political shake-up. They were a warning shot, not just for the country’s ruling leftist coalition, but for establishment conservatives who have lost their backbone. Friedrich Merz’s CDU managed to scrape out a weak victory, but the real story is the meteoric rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD),…