“The danger of war is real,” says one historian

French President Emanuel Macron in Moscow, Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington, his Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kiev: while Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is mobilizing his more than 100,000 soldiers at the border, international diplomacy is in full swing. Can a war still be avoided? What are the best strategies to defuse the conflict?

The Munich historian Martin Schulze Wessel provides orientation. The Russia expert considers a “limited war” to be quite likely – and he demands that Germany must place its Russia policy in a European context. Above all, the special energy policy has caused great damage.