From WSJopinion: If Olaf Scholz succeeds, Germany will achieve the kind of European and global leadership Angela Merkel could only pretend at, writes josephsternberg. This will transform Europe. And what a prize if it works.
Wonder Land: The world, led by NATO, should guarantee Lviv’s status as a"free city," just as the western powers did for West Berlin in 1948. Images: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz stunned the world and his own country on Feb. 27a revolution in the way Berlin will conduct foreign and defense policy in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The outline of the chancellor’s plan is well known by now, and pray it all comes true. Berlin is creating a €100 billion special defense budget to fund equipment purchases and upgrades, in tandem with a pledge to exceed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s target of 2% of gross domestic product spent on defense each year. Germany will treat energy as a national-security matter and wean itself off Russian natural gas.
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