This NATO fanboy just became Germany’s army chief

The new head of Berlin’s ground forces is a YouTube star famous for cheering on losing battles

Let’s face it: For outside observers, who are not getting a direct boost to career and income, promotions inside ministries can be about as exciting as trainspotting on an abandoned railway branch.

But this time is different: Recent changes at the German Ministry of Defense matter, if in a disturbing way. Berlin’s energetic, ambitious, popular, and resolutely narrow-minded minister of defense Boris Pistorius has just made some high-level personnel moves.

By far the single most politically significant of Pistorius’ new appointments is that of…

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