Author Michael von der Schulenburg

Michael von der Schulenburg
The war in Ukraine and its consequences will have a lasting negative impact on Germany's political, security, economic and social future. For the West, this war is already lost; Ukraine is its blood sacrifice and the EU countries, above all Germany, are the losers. Germany's leading parties, the SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens and FDP, as well as the country's established media, bear a large part of the blame for this.

However, questions about their responsibilities in this war have been mysteriously silenced during the current German election campaign. Similarly, there is hardly any talk of the German government's massive rearmament efforts and its attempts to make Germany "ready for war."

MICHAEL VON DER SCHULENBURG AND RUTH FIRMENICH
The fundamental problem with the European Parliament's Ukraine resolution is that the EU has neither the power nor the influence to enforce any of the war aims it contains. Its call for an uncompromising continuation of the war until Ukraine achieves military victory over Russia comes at a time when Ukraine is no longer in a position to win this war by military means.