The geopolitical substance of the fall of the Berlin Wall - Modern Diplomacy The geopolitical substance of the fall of the Berlin Wall - Modern Diplomacy Posted: 14 Nov 2019 12:00 AM PST Currently the material break, rather than the real fall, of the Berlin Wall is at the core of many strategic and historical misrepresentations. The naive rhetoric of "global democracy" that broke into Potsdam for the will of the conscious people – just to use an old definition of Communist propaganda – or the inevitable victory of the famous Western values over everything else. Nonsense. The negotiation, which also led President Mitterrand and Prime Minister Thatcher to use the single EU currency, namely the Euro, as strategic blackmail against the unified German Mark, was geopolitical and military strategy. Meanwhile, the shrewdest leaders in Western Europe struggled to say they did not want unification – but it was just so. Giulio Andreo...
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