Foch’s comments proved prescient. By the late 1930s, Germany had indeed rebuilt its military. It seized Austria, then Czechoslovakia, and then Poland, sparking World War II. When it was again defeated, the Allies were more attentive in their management of the country.
An AfD-controlled Germany might use its power to bully or coerce other countries, leading to tensions and conflict.
And yet, as some realist scholars have argued, rivalry among Europe’s countries never really disappeared, and certainly not through the eu alone. It was merely subdued, and largely by nato and American hegemony.
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