Hughesian pointed out that “The germany Churchill warned of is not the Germany of today” — this is clearly the case, Germany of today is not the German Empire.
You sure about that? Germany currently controls an empire of 26 other European nations. The constitutional court decision of 2009 literally enshrined that. It's the German elites (especially of the CDU) that regard a united Europe under German control as their "passion" as it were. Helmut Kohl once said that "(t)he future will belong to the Germans … when we build the House of Europe" (note not any other nation) and "Might is right in politics and war" (this is the man that started the civil war in Yugoslavia by unilaterally recognizing the independence of Croatia and Slovenia, even against President George H.W. Bush's warnings). The ECB is patterned after the Bundesbank, and the euro is patterned after the Deutsche mark. German elites from Adenauer on down were in pursuit of this kind of union from post-WWII onward; Adenauer cabinet minister Hans Seeborn once said, "Does free Europe want to join Germany? Germany is the heart of Europe, and the limbs must adjust themselves to the heart, not the heart to the limbs"—so that shows their viewpoint on who should be the leader of a united Europe.
Hughesian pointed out that “The germany Churchill warned of is not the Germany of today” — this is clearly the case, Germany of today is not the German Empire