Two months into the war on Ukraine, why have Europeans allowed the US, which is of  course not part of Europe, to dictate reckless policies against Russia over what are purely European issues? Is this a desperate last ditch effort to halt American and Western decline?

To discuss the future of Europe and the Western-dominated order, Rania Khalek was joined by Wolfgang Streeck, a sociologist and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

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TIME CODES

0:00 Intro 

1:05 Germany’s about-face 

5:13 40,000 US soldiers in Germany

7:57 Europe’s imperial core & periphery

17:25 US dictates vs European interests

26:41 Pouring weapons into Ukraine 

31:51 EU vs NATO

38:55 America’s wars blow back on Europe

43:53 The power of the Ukrainian far right

51:37 Is neoliberalism collapsing?