It’s been almost 35 years since West and East Germany unified, and the free and prosperous Europe that was promised after the dissolution of the Soviet Union seems oddly distant. Today, Europeans find themselves living in a world where their information is controlled and what they know is what their regimes tell them.

In this new episode of Journalistically Speaking, host Rick Sanchez speaks to German author Thomas Roeper about the state of Europe and the continent’s failure to abandon old Cold War policies, including NATO expansion and Russophobia.