Trump is shaking Europe from slumber

Frida Ghitis : Germany 's new leader wants to strengthen Europe 's military independence.

She says a Germany with greater strength of its own is exactly what NATO needs.

Ghitis says Europe 's most advanced nations have let capabilities atrophy since the Soviet Union’s implosion.

But she says rebuilding Europe 's armed forces will in fact have the opposite of the effect the elites dread.