Jeffrey Sachs: Europe as a Frontline in a Multipolar World?

Political subservience to the United States has prevented European countries from adopting policies that are in their own national interest. Their economies, especially that of Germany, have been ruined by being cut off from Russian cheap energy. Sachs never brings up the hopeful signs that the German people are beginning to wake up, as shown by the results of the recent regional elections, in which resounding victories of the AfD and their charismatic leader Alice Weidel, who ran on an antiwar platform of restoring good economic relations between Germany and Russia. I think Putin is doing his best to avoid war with NATO, and is patiently waiting for Merz to be gone and a more sensible leadership to emerge with which it is possible to do business.