The debate on the deliveries of “Leopard” tanks is ongoing. Greens, FDP and the Union put pressure on. Only the SPD seems strangely indecisive again. Why is that?
It’s a two-letter word. J and A
Do you wish Ukraine would win the war against Russia? A few months ago, Saskia Esken would probably have started a long monologue after this question. Emphasizing Germany’s supportive role, calling Putin a war criminal only to not answer the real question in the end. But this time the party leader simply said to “Spiegel”: “Yes.”
It’s amazing in a number of ways.
On the one hand, Lars Klingbeil, Esken’s co-chairman at the party leadership, is actually responsible for foreign policy. Most recently, he had even called for Germany to assume a leading role in the world.