On the resilience manual – Roger Cohen in NYT:

‘This has led to widespread unease. France is preparing to distribute a “resilience manual” to every household to help citizens prepare for threats, including armed conflict on French soil.
At the same time, Mr. Macron announced a $2.1 billion plan to modernize an air base and equip it to host next-generation Rafale fighter jets able to deliver hypersonic nuclear missiles.
“What has become increasingly clear is that Trump’s team sees Europe as a parasitic freeloading ally and its liberal democracies as political and ideological adversaries,” said Célia Belin, the head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign relations. “But this is so contradictory to everything the United States has stood for that we are bound to ask: Can America really tilt this way?”’

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‘“It seems there has been a seismic change,” Sir David Manning, the former British ambassador to the United States, told the House of Lords this month, alluding to the difficulties of intelligence sharing when there are people in the Trump administration who are “looking for ways to appease Russia.”’

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‘For now, on Ukraine, Europe seems determined to show teeth rather than offer Mr. Putin a victory perceived as threatening the entire continent. Beyond that, a great European disorientation is apparent.’

Read the article here.

After the US: the resilience manual.

Perhaps Germany will once again try to become a superpower and will protect the rest of Europe with nuclear arms and Prussian discipline.

Maybe this time, the Messiah truly comes from Germany.

Good teeth might this time be German teeth.