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ORAC
Extraordinary exchange in German TV: respected CDU MP RKiesewetter, a retired army colonel, says he doesn’t believe that Olaf Scholz wants Ukraine to win the war.
No reason why he would, imho.
The Ukraine government chose to launch its army against its Russian speaking minority who were trying to retain their historic rights. This initial civil war stemmed from the Kiev government 's abrogation of these rights after the Maidan revolution. Germany tried hard to avert this war, with the Minsk accords. Their implementation was blocked by the Ukraine, not by the Russians.
So the current disaster is not solely due to Putin's paranoia, but also to his desire to end an anti Russian pogrom at his border. He grossly overreached and is now suffering the consequences.
The end state desired by the Ukraine government is full control of its post USSR land, presumably free to continue ethnic cleansing of their Russian inhabitants. While understandable given the situation, why would Scholz want to support that?
It is bad enough for Germany to have a wrecked Ukraine and a crippled Russia to look forward to. Abetting an ongoing civil war simply deepens the hatreds and makes recovery impossible.