Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined in this episode by Ulrike Franke, a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

As the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, embarks on his first visit to the US, Ulrike gives her insight into how we should understand Germany’s relationship to its allies and to Russia. She dissects Germany’s handling of the current Russia/Ukraine crisis, the generational change in German government, and how Germany relates to Russia post-WWII.

References: Germany isn’t turning its back on NATO. It only looks that way (The Washington Post); A Millennial Considers the New German Problem After 30 Years of Peace (War on the Rocks)