As support for Kyiv starts to crack in Washington, Europe’s role is crucial. But Germany, the continent’s economic heavyweight, looks weak.
BERLIN — It’s as jarring to think that trains in Germany are routinely late as to imagine good meals are scarce in France or dust bowls have consumed Ireland’s peat bogs. Yet Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway, is so reliably unreliable that itsMake sense of the news fast with Opinions' daily newsletter
The stakes are mounting as dwindling Republican support for Ukraine looks increasingly likely to imperil U.S. arms and funding for Kyiv. If Washington turns its back, Europe will need to fill the leadership void. But what if Germany shrinks from the role?Days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dramatically announced to his stunned countrymen that aFast forward 20 months and Scholz has made some headway.
Germany has about 600 Taurus missiles. No single conventional weapon is a game changer but the Taurus would provide Ukrainian forces with potent firepower. Unlike the British and French missiles, which can punch holes in big targets, the Taurus’s warhead could collapse thethan the economies of the United States and major European countries, including Britain, France and Spain. It has also beenabout the inflow of immigrants, attracted by generous social benefits.
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