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How Putin’s Aggression Is Changing Berlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt, reported Reuters. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on…

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brazen and unprovoked assault on Ukraine is fast turning his fears of a more resolute Europe, and potentially expanded NATO alliance, into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt.

Ursula von der Leyen says stations will ‘no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war’

Germany’s stunning decision to send anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine — citing “a new reality” — is nothing less than a historic break with its post-World War II foreign and security policy

The measure would mark the first time the 27-nation bloc finances the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack.

Putin had calculated a divided America and Europe would make it hard to punish him for invading Ukraine.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says urgency of Ukraine crisis has forced decision to increase defence spending

Chancellor Scholz says country to invest more than 2 percent of GDP in defence; also announces construction of gas terminals.

Germany will sharply hike its spending on defense to more than 2% of its economic output in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told an extraordinary session of the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Sunday.