The unreasons of reason of state. Pursuing objective interests with wars never served the attacker and seriously harmed the defender.
Merkel and Scholz refer to the past to refer to Nazism and Shoah and avoid its repetition. German society and state commands respect and admiration for the German state, writes Michael Schulder. He says Germany is beginning, cautiously, to promote shared visions of traumatic events of the past inside and outside its confines. But it has an uphill road and the strengthening of racist far-right parties is the only way to consolidate real security.