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Germany in the Ukraine conflict. I welcome Ryan Bridges, writing for geopolitical futures

where he is an analyst. A subscription side I recommend. Observing Germany now at the

10 month going into the new calendar year of the war in Europe. Germany is the largest

economy. It's looked to as a leader in the EU and one of the leaders in NATO. However,

at this time, there's reason to assess how Germany is doing, especially because of the

now famous Zitinvenda speech made by Chancellor Schultz right after the beginning of the conflict

in late February. Ryan, I'm very good even to you. Zitinvenda, let us do some fundamentals.

What does it mean in German and what did Chancellor Schultz mean to represent at that time?

Good evening. Good evening. Congratulations on that pronunciation. That was very good. I

know a lot of English speakers have struggled with it. In his initial Zitinvenda speech,

which was two or three days after the war started, he said kind of the most basic things

that you would expect that Germany was going to support Ukraine, give them weapons, which

they did. That was a very big deal in Germany. Compared to pre-war when they were offering

5,000 helmets, it was a dramatic step for Germany. But of course, I think it was sort of

the minimum expectation that NATO, that Germany's NATO allies would have for their response.

They talked about overcoming their dependence on Russian energy and on modernizing the

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