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Political Realism Requires Transatlantic Ties

Political Realism Requires Transatlantic Ties

Walter Russell Mead's 'Friedrich Merz, Our Man in Berlin' (Global View, July 15) recounts the remarkable way the U.S. learned from its infantile, quixotic and explosively dangerous foreign policy toward Germany after World War I. America realized that global stability was more likely if Washington maintained pragmatic involvement and economic policy that dovetailed with foreign policy—rather than stand-alone or counterproductive economic policy.
In the interwar years, the U.S. condoned the German military buildup under warped views of equality between Germany and France, and it enforced German reparations while loaning Germany twice the amount of reparations due—defending each policy in a vacuum. After World War II, America made peace with the idea of U.S. involvement in Europe, and it came to understand the necessity of financial investment in Europe.
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