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Putin’s Worst Nightmare: Made in Ukraine, Funded by Berlin

Forget NATO. Germany Just Gave Ukraine the Real Deterrent

8 min readMay 29, 2025

First Great Britain. Then France. Now, Germany.

That is the sequence — not of statements, but of actions. One by one, these nations dragged the alliance forward, each making their own leap to protect the democratic world and stop the rise of the new evil empire.

Wait — wasn’t Germany already the second-highest donor to Ukraine by 2023?

Yes.

But you should never count contributions in dollars. You measure them in capability and delivery. Counting money is a mistake — and worse, it’s a trap. Dollars are psychological tools. And the Biden administration’s national security team used that vulnerability to full effect, hiding their paralysis behind giant numbers.

Yes, American weapons, American intelligence, and decades of U.S. military infrastructure remain critical to this war. That scaffolding — built by multiple U.S. administrations — still holds firm beneath the chaos.

But in terms of actual help, both Biden’s administration and Trump’s that followed have been the weakest links in the global effort to protect the democratic world. America the powerful has become America the fearful — first under a…

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.

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