| In the wake of Russia’s attack, Germany has reoriented its energy policy and committed to dramatic military expansion for the first time since the Cold War.  Photograph by Joakim Eskildsen / Institute for The New Yorker Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed civilian and military carnage, ravaged cities, and sent some two million people fleeing the country. As its effects have rippled across Europe and the world, one has gone underexamined: the invasion has upended the political and economic policies of Germany, where the government has reconsidered its long-planned energy transition, undone a congenial political stance toward Russia that lasted for half a century, and reversed a policy of military minimalism that dates to the end of the Second World War. In many ways, Germany has rethought its place in the world—all in two weeks. “I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it in my political life,” a former senior government adviser told me. “It’s staggering.” —Alec MacGillis, from “How Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Upended Germany” | 
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