It’s nearly a year since Olaf Scholz promised to tip German defence policy on its head. In his zeitenwende (new era) speech just days after Vladimir Putin launched his all-out assault on Ukraine, the Chancellor signalled an end to 70 years of German anti-militarism. It hasn’t been quite that simple.
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Russia is used to waging long wars and Putin seems intent on steam-rolling his armies against Ukraine for as long as it takes.
The key inflection point in Timothy Snyder’s “On Freedom” and Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy Inc.” is the same: the resonating impact of Putin’s aggression.
Putin has missed an obvious opportunity to label Kyiv’s surprise incursion as the modern day equivalent to Operation Barbarossa.
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