While strategic stability plays some role in the German discourse, particularly among academics, there is no discussion of arms control as part of competitive military strategy
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The Europeans are insufficiently prepared to provide more in terms of defense and stability
The threshold for the first use of nuclear weapons has been lowered
I don’t expect very specific defence co-operation to come out of the E3 […] the main idea is to have the UK involved one way or another
I don’t see any real winners here. The US loses not just in influence but in credibility. Europe loses stability
When it comes to AI, countries have very different approaches […] In Germany, people think economically and look at the middle class, whereas France thinks in a much more geopolitical way
The Security Council is concerned with peace and security […] But now the UN is largely invisible as an actor. These are the effects of the tensions between the USA and China. And it is disturbing to observe
ECFR co-chair Carl Bildt criticizes the fact that the UN Security Council has been largely silent since the beginning of the corona crisis.
France is rather open-minded about autonomous weapon systems and artificial intelligence and rather cautious about Germany