When Olaf Scholz declared the Russian invasion of Ukraine a 'Zeitenwende,' an epochal turning point, he pledged that Germany would rise to the occasion. Scholz has begun to deliver TIME100
an epochal turning point, he pledged that Germany would rise to the occasion. Though Berlin’s response hasn’t always been as quick as many of its allies would like,has begun to deliver. In the space of a year, Germany overturned its postwar pacifism, ramping up its military spending and becoming one of Ukraine’s biggest arms suppliers. It also ended its reliance on Russian energy and, after international pressure, sent.
Delays that critics regard as needless hesitation are seen by others as due caution in a nation still scarred by its own history of wartime aggression. “Living in Germany, you can’t go away from the disasters of the first half of the 20th century, which were caused by Germany,” Scholz told TIME in 2022. “It is in all the things we do politically, and it is in my mind too because we have a historic responsibility to help secure peace.
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