Are the allegations against the Federal President and the ex-Chancellor justified? Anyone wishing to judge must consider the circumstances and constraints at the time they made their decisions.
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Nico Fried
For two days now, Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been admitting mistakes and misjudgments in Russia policy over the past few years, for which he was largely responsible. The Federal President says that the strategy of involving Russia has failed, that he was wrong about Vladimir Putin and that he held on to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline for too long. That’s a pretty disastrous self-indictment. And now?