For greater than a decade, German leaders have coddled and appeased not solely the Kremlin but in addition the European Union’s most reckless and brazenly anti-Western authorities—in Budapest.
Germany’s negligence in Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Group has been notably evident amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For some Berlin critics, Ukraine’s current rejection of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s proposed go to to Kyiv comes as belated vindication.