Contemporary Germany provides positive, sensible leadership for Europe and beyond. Over the past months, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has enjoyed a series of rhetorical and diplomatic successes that deserve more attention and praise than they have so far received. On Jan. 22, he delivered an important and insightful policy address at a meeting of international leaders in Davos, Switzerland. Merz emphasized that the international system of approximately the past three decades, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Soviet satellite bloc, with the conclusion of the Cold War, has ended. The relatively stable successor system, led by the United States, where international law was relatively influential, has now also come to an end, in part because of the direct military invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 and resulting long, bloody and so far indecisive war. China, with impressive “strategic foresight,” has now become a great power, and more generally we are entering an era of great power politics. Merz noted that “strength and force” have emerged as much more important than b
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