Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy
In Germany, there’s been an election.
And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members .
Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control?
After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besieged Christian Democrats?
Meanwhile, what exactly is Donald Trump up to? In the past few weeks, America’s Sun King has sprayed the geopolitical flak a mile high. From Gaza-a-lago to dropping his piledriver on Zelensky.
In four years everyone went…
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