Zeitenwende für Deutschland? Nein, es gibt nur den gleichen alten Scheiß.

Germany has not delivered on the promise of a historic "turning point" after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.

On 27 February, 2022, just three days after a long column of Russian armored vehicles rolled south towards Kyiv from Belarus and Russian missiles launched eastward into the Donbas, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a historic announcement.

From the NY Times:

“Feb. 24, 2022, marks a historic turning point in the history of our continent,” Mr. Scholz said in an address to a special session of Parliament on Sunday, citing the date when President Vladimir V. Putin ordered Russian forces to launch an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. He announced that Germany would increase its military spending to more than 2 percent of the country’s economic output, beginning immediately with a one-off 100 billion euros, or $113 billion, to invest in the country’s woefully underequipped armed forces. He added that Germany would speed up construction of two terminals for receiving liquefied natural gas, or LNG, part of efforts to ease the country’s reliance on Russian energy. “At the heart of the matter is the question of whether power can break the law,” Mr. Scholz said. “Whether we allow Putin to turn back the hands of time to the days of the great powers of the 19th century. Or whether we find it within ourselves to set limits on a warmonger like Putin.”