Stefan Bartl

Prosperity rests not on intentions, but on foundations. In Germany’s case, those foundations were historically not only institutional and industrial, but energetic: the stable supply of power that made production, exports, and growth possible. Otto von Bismarck and Konrad Adenauer represent very different German traditions—one rooted in the iron-and-blood Realpolitik of the 1870s and the other in the…

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