Episode

When diplomacy meets reality: Germany's balancing act with Trump’s America

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DW Berlin Briefing - Inside German politics

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Jan 9, 2026

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Summary

Headlines coming out of the US shook the world in the first week of 2026: the military operation in Venezuela and Trump's talk of seizing Greenland. DW Berlin Briefing host Nina Haase and her guests, Michaela Küfner (DW) and Thorsten Benner (Global Public Policy Institute) discuss whether Germany's relative silence is strategic restraint or helplessness in the face of US assertiveness.