As the standoff between Russia and the West enters a potentially decisive phase, President Joe Biden meets at the White House with Germany's new chancellor, whose willingness to confront Moscow alongside the United States has been called into question.
Olaf Scholz took office in December, succeeding a towering figure in global politics -- Angela Merkel -- whose absence during the current crisis is being felt on both sides of the Atlantic.Scholz arrives in Washington as Russian President Vladimir Putin has assembled 70% of the military personnel and weapons on Ukraine's borders he would need for a full-scale invasion of the country, based on US intelligence estimates -- though no one seems to know what his true intentions might be.
"We are intensively engaged with all our allied partners in the European Union, with the question of Ukraine, hardly any question occupies us more," Scholz said in an interview with the German public broadcaster ZDF before traveling to Washington. He went on to say that an attack by Russia on Ukraine would have a"very high price.
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