Advice from German foreign politicians shakes the image of the far-sighted strategist in the Chancellery. The head of government’s decision to send Leopard 2 to Ukraine appears to have been made hectically and without consultation with the coalition partners.
A Leopard 2 at a demonstration during the visit of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to the tank battalion in Augustdorf (North Rhine-Westphalia) on Wednesday.
The day following his decision to send main battle tanks to Ukraine, Olaf Scholz presented himself as a shrewd strategist. He explained that he did not hesitate and hesitate, as the short-sighted and ignorant opponents of his course repeatedly accused him of. Rather, everything followed a long-term plan that he had agreed with Washington and Paris and the partners in the Berlin coalition in a spirit of trust.
