Correspondent in Berlin
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Pacifism, the lack of investment in armaments, the excessive economic dependence on authoritarian regimes - China, Russia - are called into question by the war in Ukraine.
• What are the mainsprings of the German model?
"Never again!"
was the number one slogan of the post-war German generations, who inherited a country devastated by Nazism, liberated in the east by the Soviets and in the west by the Americans.
It is on this rubble, aided by the reunification of 1989, that the country has rebuilt its prosperity.
Pacifism and free trade formed the matrix of this development, fueled by the belief that unfettered trade guaranteed peace.
And vice versa.
According to a pattern that has long prevailed in Berlin, a Russia detached from the ideological contingencies of the Cold War supplied gas to Germany without interruption.
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At the same time, the automotive industry was sourcing Chinese components before selling its vehicles in the Middle Kingdom.
A diplomacy was organized...
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