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Scholz, Macron and Draghi to Kyiv: Modern Europe against the warrior tsar

2022-06-12T14:14:44.118Z


Scholz, Macron and Draghi to Kyiv: Modern Europe against the warrior tsar Created: 06/12/2022Updated: 06/12/2022, 16:05 By: Georg Anastasiadis Chancellor Scholz' trip to Kyiv is overdue, comments Georg Anastasiadis. © Kay Nietfeld/dpa/Marcus sleep So now: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is traveling to Ukraine. It's about time. A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis. Munich - Yes: Chancellor Olaf Scholz's


Scholz, Macron and Draghi to Kyiv: Modern Europe against the warrior tsar

Created: 06/12/2022Updated: 06/12/2022, 16:05

By: Georg Anastasiadis

Chancellor Scholz' trip to Kyiv is overdue, comments Georg Anastasiadis.

© Kay Nietfeld/dpa/Marcus sleep

So now: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is traveling to Ukraine.

It's about time.

A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.

Munich - Yes: Chancellor Olaf Scholz's planned trip to Kyiv is long overdue, almost four months after the start of the war.

But one can also say that it has never been as valuable as it is today, when the Ukrainian defenders in Donbass have their backs to the wall and growing despair is replacing hope for a quick end to the war across the country.

Together, the German Scholz, the French Macron and the Italian Draghi want to show Ukraine a perspective for EU accession before the G7 summit in Elmau, Bavaria.

That is the right answer to the fantasies of annihilation that the Kremlin ruler, Putin, is living out with increasing unrest in the east of the neighboring country he has invaded.

The symbolism of the visit could hardly be stronger: it is the heirs of the founding fathers of modern, peacefully united Europe who are opposing the self-proclaimed revenant of Tsar Peter the Great in Ukraine, 300 years after the conqueror's death.

It's a battle of 21st-century values ​​against 18th-century cannon politics, and after Putin's new history lesson and the invocation of Tsar Peter, we fear more than ever that the incursion into Ukraine is just the beginning for the Kremlin's landgrabber was in the "retrieval" of former Russian territories.

Despite the trip to Kyiv: Doubts about Scholz, Macron and Draghi

But are the three heads of government waging this fight with the necessary determination?

Doubts about this have grown, especially in the new, Eastern Europe: the German hesitation in supplying weapons, combined with Macron's warning of a "humiliation" of Putin - just as if Western Europe were more concerned about the well-being of the perpetrator than the victim - have revealed fissures in the defense alliance that are more dangerous than the extra tours of the usual suspects Turkey and Hungary.

Without the United States, a divided and defenseless Europe would long since have had to lay down its arms in the face of Moscow's urge to expand.

It would therefore have been a good signal if Poland's head of government had also been invited to the trip by the trio that set the tone in the EU.

That might have healed old wounds caused by President Steinmeier's awkward Ukrainian uninviting.

All the same, the Chancellor, who has come under pressure to act domestically and abroad, seems to have decided to clear up some doubts.

When he travels to Kyiv in June, in addition to the EU ticket, he will probably also have the export license for German Marder tanks from Rheinmetall stocks with him, which are soon to strengthen the Ukrainian combat power in the hell of the Donbass.

Where the ideas and weapons of modern Europe meet Putin's neo-tsarist will to conquer, neither the 21st nor the 18th century rules, but rather the dark 20th century with its terrible battles of attrition like in the First World War.

Source: merkur

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