Friedrich Merz announces the end of an ,,era” in Europe

The era of Pax Americana is over for Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared this at the congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) on December 13 this year.

,,The decades of Pax Americana have ended for us. It is a reality! The Americans are now very insistent in defending their interests. So we must defend ours. This is not an ebb and flow of good relations, but a major change’’, he said.

According to him, the European Union must prepare for significant changes in relations with the United States and for ,,increasing threats from Russia”.

Merz also compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, stating that the Kremlin regime ,,will not stop’’ at the borders of Ukraine if the country falls, just as Hitler did not stop after the 1938 Munich Agreement through which he obtained the German-speaking Sudetenland region that belonged to Czechoslovakia.

The notion of Pax Americana refers to the period of relative peace and stability that extended throughout the entire area of ​​influence of the US, starting with the end of World War II.

Some political analysts, however, believe that this doctrine has little to do with America and that peace did not occur due to Washington’s security activities, but due to the fact that developed nations finally became ,,reluctant’’ to wage wars among themselves.