of Cold War Ostpolitik eventually came to see the “stability” of Communist regimes as the ne plus ultra of West German foreign policy, shunting aside the people-powered demands for change rising from below. By advocating the withdrawal of American nuclear-tipped Pershing missiles from West German soil — a move that would have put its fellow European NATO allies at risk of Russian nuclear blackmail — the West German peace movement of the early 1980s was, as a Social Democratic academic later confessed, “national in the guise of anti-nuclear.”

This pattern continues today. When NATO undertook exercises in Eastern Europe in summer 2016 to reassure members made anxious by Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, then German Foreign Minister (and current President) Frank-Walter Steinmeier echoed Kremlin propaganda by labeling the maneuversLost time.

Owen "Swaggershot" Deadhorn

Description:

Swagger is a shorter man with a big attitude. He is always smiling, a smirk that is both highly irritating but also infectiously lovable. He has shaggy, perpetually unkempt sandy brown hair and a handsome face with a nice profile.

He bears a few scars from various fights over the years, but his most notable injury is a slightly mangled left hand with only four fingers—a lasting reminder of a youthful mistake made with unforgiving gunpowder. His blew off his pinkie, and while the rest of his hand healed up well enough, it still tends to fall into an unusual shape when at rest. He is good-natured about it, and enjoys making jokes about it—it clearly doesn’t bother him at all.

Swag typically dresses in simple, mobile