https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/fe959afb-6819-45a8-9c79-50328d541e82 Two months into the war on Ukraine, why have Europeans allowed the US, which is of course not part of Europe, to dictate reckless policies against Russia over what are purely European issues? Is this a desperate last ditch effort to halt American and Western decline? To discuss the future of Europe and the Western-dominated order, Rania Khalek was joined by Wolfgang Streeck, a sociologist and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts. Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK TIME CODES 0:00 Intro 1:05 Germany’s about-face 5:13 40,000 US soldiers in Germany 7:57 Europe’s imperial core & periphery 17:25 US dictates vs European interests 26:41 Pouring weapons into Ukraine 31:51 EU vs NATO 38:55 America’s wars blow back on Europe 43:53 The power of the Ukrainian far right 51:37 Is neoliberalism collapsing? Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:23:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/fe959afb-6819-45a8-9c79-50328d541e82 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.