Putin’s strength is the weakness of the West – Berlin is also responsible for that

Wladimir Putin

Russia’s president has used brute force with considerable success.

(Photo: AP)

If Vladimir Putin could wish for a West, the picture he has created should come pretty close to the current reality. While the secret services and military consider the danger of a Russian invasion to be real and the Americans are already beginning to withdraw ambassadorial staff from Ukraine, German politics is turning what they are doing these days, which could hardly be more explosive in terms of foreign policy, into a kind of diplomatic art form has developed: She is conducting a debate about what possible sanctions she does not want to see against Moscow.

Put Nord Stream 2 up for grabs? Rather not, say parts of the SPD in particular, it is also about German security of supply. Disconnect Russia from the Swift payment system? The coalition parties and opposition agree that this is also damaging to German economic interests. Arms deliveries to Ukraine, as the British, French and of course the Americans have been doing for a long time? Cannot be reconciled with the historical guilt of the Germans in World War II.

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