Germany Has a NAZI Problem in the Shape of Mr. Merz

There is an effort in parts of the Western policy conversation to rebrand territorial concessions as “realism.” It is being framed as pragmatic, inevitable, even responsible. It is none of those things. It is, in fact, a NAZI-adjacent dead end. The post-World War II order was not built on optimism. It was built on hard lessons. Chief among them: territorial conquest by force cannot be legitimized…