Ukraine crisis reveals Obama’s alignment with German foreign policy

There is unlikely to be a US president in the near future who is more aligned with the dominant instincts of German foreign policy than Barack Obama, said Thorsten Benner on the ARD program Bericht aus Berlin on April 24. For Obama, Germany’s unprecedented push for a political solution and for sanctions on Russia during the Ukraine crisis was essential to fending off those in Washington who favored military escalation and lethal weapons assistance to Ukraine.