It was a few days ago when Annalena Baerbock put it bluntly to Markus Lanz: Ukraine must win the war and Russia must “strategically lose it.” To this day, the chancellor has not been as clear as the foreign minister. Although Olaf Scholz has with his Word of the turning point showed the direction of German politics just three days after the Russian attack. But a driving force behind arms aid to Ukraine were mainly the Greens. As early as Easter, the left-wing Toni Hofreiter had publicly reprimanded the chancellor: the brakes on military support were in the chancellery.
The War of the Greens: Hubert Kleinert on his party culture
