It’s a superb guess Vladimir Putin hopes that, as his Ukraine warfare drags on, Western allies can be tempted to sacrifice Ukraine for the sake of ending the battle. So kudos to lawmakers in Berlin for staring down Mr. Putin’s many makes an attempt to bully Germany and others into negotiating a separate peace.
The German parliament on Thursday handed, 586-100, a decision calling on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s authorities to step up its shipments of heavy weapons to Kyiv. The federal government on Tuesday lastly introduced it’s going to ship Ukraine 50 Cheetah anti-aircraft tanks, though Mr. Scholz nonetheless is reluctant to ship different programs such because the Leopard tank.