http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220328-011107-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/ukraine-realism-and-the-synchronization-of-political-time-in-the-us-and-germany/ Ukraine, Realism, and the Synchronization of Political Time in the US and Germany Specter, Matthew eng 2022-03-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 German foreign policy realism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 What the US and Germany face today with Russia is evidently not a peaceful competition of rivals that can be managed by the pursuit of equilbrium and balance, the leitmotifs of 19th century Realpolitik. Nor is the Russian invasion a result of Western failure to heed realist caution about the project of NATO enlargement in Eastern Europe.