German Foreign Policy - A Stinging Speech

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President zalenski asked chancellor schultz to tear down the wall, echoing words preside regan had delivered in berlin in 19 87. Major spending plans and an effective rearmament of the bundesfer offer to radically change germany's defense posture. For decades, germany has been risk averse, but now it is entering a new age of confrontation.

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.