After 1871, Bismarck declared that the new Germany was a “satiated” power. Germany’s insecurity in such a world was not imaginary; it was the central fact of the European order. With Finland and Sweden now in NATO, a northern and eastern security belt is forming with Germany as a central hub. In this first phase, Germany remains formally inside the post-1945 order, but it is already behaving like a middle-sized military power preparing to act in an anarchic system. If we insist on dismantling the order that made an abnormal Germany possible, we will get the normal Germany that history teaches us to expect.