Germans have been lamenting what they call the absence of stategic culture in germany. The country gets caught in these very, very stale debates over a set of militarism versus peace. Now how does this new strategic thinking apply to energy policy? It's really hard. How feasible do you think it is that germany can wean itself off of russian energy imports? And what kind of time scale are we looking at?
For decades, Germany was doctrinally pacifist: a legacy left over from the second world war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has
changed that, seemingly overnight. As Russia’s military advance has stalled, it has turned its firepower against civilian targets, resulting in widespread death, but also in the
destruction of Ukraine’s cultural legacy. And remembering one of the many brave, ordinary Ukrainians, fallen in defence of their country.