What's behind Scholz's Taurus calculus? Chancellor could count on Putin victory. Chancellor could be afraid that Putin will soon win the war against Ukraine.
Then Germany would urgently need its Taurus cruise missiles as a deterrent against Russia. “You can smell the sweat of fear,” says CDU politician Jens Spahnens Spensens, accused him of being afraid of Putin. ‘If Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, the risk of war for all of us will increase massively’