“Western allies can work around toxic decision-making in small countries such as Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia. But Germany is too big to ignore”, writes Edward Lucas, non-resident Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
Calling Germany “the weakest link” of its allies, Lucas claims that the country “clearly needs a new security policy”.
“Ukrainians and their friends are justifiably furious about all this. The Zeitenwende [seachange] that the German leader announced after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 has proved deeply disappointing.”
The US really believed the Russian nuclear threats. That alone explains their reticence to fully support Ukraine.
They didn’t want to see a mushroom cloud over Kyiv.
Was this assessment right? I guess we will never know. But the way things are going, the price we will have to pay will be greater.