Germany Deploys Troops to Lithuania
According to a report published by Politico on 18 December 2023, Germany deployed 4,800 troops in Lithuania, with 200 civilians accompanying them.
Now, the question has to be what the deployment of the troops means for the region, its relation to the Ukraine war, and American disinterest.
Germany, since the end of World War II in 1945, has not been allowed to have a proper military part from one that works within the support network of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
The West Germans could work adequately as a buffer and combat zone for the other Western allies against the Soviet Union.
The reasons the United States gave subsidies to its allies in the former militant protection and the protection of the high seas enabled more significant free trade and protection, which enabled all nations to access goods and services that were part of the American alliance network to prosper.
The United States is increasingly disinterested in maintaining an alliance system with the United States of America writing its allies’ foreign policy, with a clear example being the Suez crisis of 1956 with the British, Israelis, and French trying to take the Suez Canal from Egypt.
In response, the Americans caused the economic crisis in Britain because the British government was heavily indebted to the United States of America, which caused the fall of the Anthony Eden by Premiership ship in 1957.
The United States established international political, geopolitical, and economic policies that suited the interests of the United States with its allies if there had been a war against the Soviet Union, ensuring that most of the conflict would happen outside North America and mainly in the Eurasian continent.
Now, the United States, with the remilitarisation of Japan and Germany, have started to act like the nations in pursuing their geopolitical interests, including foreign policy.
In conclusion, this will make the Polish incredibly nervous, not wanting to be dominated by the Russians or Germans again, and make the other lesser powers in central Europe be at least politically dominated by Germany.
Furthermore, Germany has flatlands with little natural defences, which means that to defend itself, it needs a strong military, which has historically been proven to be expansionist.
This means that the Germans seized territory from its neighbours to pursue their security.
