In the days of Russia launching its full-scale invasion Ukraine In 2022, Olaf Scholz announced TimeOr history “to decline it.” Then German Chancellor promised security transformation to enhance defense spending, sending more help Ukraine, taking a tougher access to the authorities and quickly reducing Germany’s dependence of Russian industry.
It was a psychological turn to the native haunted by his Nazi past and now expected to step in – as the biggest economic power in Europe – to the threat of the container.
However, two years later in German Council of Foreign Relations A report Saying Scholz’s transformation was still “to deliver a meaningful change.”
Yes with the new chancellor can Time And for real time? No lack of action or rhetoric. For taking a three years ago, Frederick Merz vow Germany will be the strongest conventional army in Europe, hosted in Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Berlin and visited Kyiv and attended The German military LithuaniaThe first permanent of the German soldiers in the foreign soil with the second world war. Critical, who released the debt brake, so unleashing the poorly needed spending in Bundeswehr Germany military.
The opening of the chancery promised to provide necessary financial means to do this. Germany’s partners look for this Merz said in the government, “Yes, to almost demand it.” Announced to the intention to transform Germany A “dormant to leading the middle power.” Now it is already faded easily in this role.
The Lithuania said, “Career Vilnius is the protection of Berlin. The common freedom is not the end of the geopolitical line – it ceases to stop defending.” This is from home to late as 2011 saw the Federal President to resign the criticism for suggesting the military work would be necessary in the emergency to “protection interests.”
But it is not all is going to be a smooth man. Monday, Merz told not any restrictions in the arms of Ukrainian Britain, France Germany and the Ukrainian Britain, France Germany and the US and Ukraine is already a “a long-range of the taurus was to be made available to the bombs.
A response from Moscow was immediately. Sergei Lavrov in Russian foreign Minister, he said: “Listening to the current German leader Germany will recover its position is very pleased in Europe in Europe in the year not enough symptomatic.”
The former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reminded the world of Nazi past the father of Merz, and warned again the threat of the world war tribes.
The reality of what Merz is offering Ukraine somewhat more complex, which can make to meet the wider than the expanding of the German Army.
Day after her “not to the commitment to qualify that it had been a long time, and then they have been overcome by the pledge of the Ministerbian, Lars Klingbeil, the Social Democratic – Merz’s Coalition Partners – Blocking Merz. In the Episode remember the paralysis of the paralysis of the paralysis prior to the command.
This may also be in the office that Merz is made more aware of the complexities between Ukraine to six months, training in practice and effects in the German soldiers to give training inside Ukrainian. Control has now retreated at the site strategic ambiguity in which they do, and focused on offering Ukraine from the company to combine the missiles.
Merz’s partners said episode is not completely empty. Thomas Röwekamp, Christian Democratic Union, who is the chair of the Bundestag’s defense committee, reported in Frankfurter General Zeitung newspaper and by rejecting the Range Limitations, Merz had a “remote argument to prevent bulls.” This is not yet a “commitment” to create bull but system to previous objection was “removed.”
And a larger risk of Merz and the rhetoric does not match the reality which can not deliver and build a German army after decades of negligence and take many years.
For example, in 2021, Germany agreed in 2030 to provide 10 brigades to the NATO – units usually include out of 5,000 military. It currently has eight brigades and building the ninth in Lithuania is ready since 2027.
Overall, it has about 182,000 military serving in force, more, according to the defense Minister, Mark Pistent, 60,000 available reserving. In comparison with the cold war until 500,000 soldiers served in the Bundeswehr, and access to the 800,000 reserves. In 2031-number active military to grow up to 203,000.
Still at the time it takes and whatever Misssteps Germany’s partners have already been adjusted to the revenue of Germany as premier soldiers in Europe.