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Editorial: Germany is right to support Ukraine in her hour of need
After understandable soul searching, the chancellor gave the nod to send in Leopard 2 tanks to support a sovereign nation fighting for lives and liberty
A few days after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, the chancellor of Germany acknowledged the fateful nature of the moment. It was, Olaf Scholz said, a zeitenwende, a turning point. He was talking about the reverberations of the war for Germany’s foreign and defence policy, which was entrenched in decades of well-intentioned pacifism and the avoidance of military confrontations.
We got a glimpse last week of how far Germany has turned in the 11 months since ...