As Ukraine fights Russia, Germany is fighting with itself

While the West, Nato and Germany dither about sending the Leopard 2 battle tank to Ukraine, once the US entered World War ll they produced a battle tank every five minutes.

But it is understandable why Germany is slow to dispatch the Leopard to Ukrainian soil. Eighty one years ago Germany unleashed a bloodbath in Ukraine and were the cause of 20 million Russians losing their lives. And there is also the logic that when this war is over Germany will want to rebuild relations with Russia.

Olaf Scholz keeps stressing that Germany wants to do no solo-run in Ukraine. That makes sense, knowing the history of Germany and the Soviet Union.

As Derek Scally writes in The Irish Times yesterday: "As Ukraine fights Russia, Germany is fighting with itself. Being forced beyond its postwar comfort zone is an open-ended experiment. As Scholz remarked a year ago: 'Whether we have it in us to keep warmongers like Putin in check requires strength of our own.’ "