How long Boris Pistorius hesitated when Chancellor Scholz called, where he sees a limit to military aid for Ukraine and why he thinks the abolition of conscription was a mistake.
Interviewed by
Georg Ismar, Nicolas Richter and Mike Szymanski
The new defense minister hardly gets any sleep. Four, five hours, more is not possible right now. This is how Boris Pistorius tells it, who has just returned to the ministry from his first visit to the Panzergrenadiers. The big question is: Will he succeed in getting the Bundeswehr in shape? Pistorius brings index cards with keywords to the SZ interview. But in conversation he doesn’t look at it at all. He’s right in the middle of it.