The group at “Maybrit Illner” agrees: The West finally needs a real strategy – otherwise Russia will not only win the war in Ukraine, but will also end up on NATO’s borders at some point.
The journalist Marina Weisband, who was born in Ukraine, summed up the many discussions and the endlessly difficult decision-making processes in the West since the Russian attack on Ukraine two years ago: Everything has always happened “a few months too late”. In the discussion at Maybrit Illner on Thursday evening you can also get the impression that if this continues, it will be too late for Ukraine – and for a clear stop signal from the West to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Now is the time when the West has to be honest about what it wants to enable Ukraine and what it doesn’t, says SPD politician Michael Roth, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.