The moral bankruptcy of German pacifism

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"... This belief, born of imperial Germany’s position between autocratic Russia and the liberal-democratic West, has given rise to all kinds of dangerous and irresponsible foreign-policy positions, from the 19th-century Drang nach Osten (‘drive to the East’) and vision of Mitteleuropa (German leadership of Central Europe) to Hitler’s search for Lebensraum (‘living space’) and West German chancellor Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik (rapprochement with East Germany and the Soviet Union). Interestingly, Ukraine was often at the heart of these strategies.

In this context, to describe postwar Germany as ‘pacifist‘ is to choose the most charitable term. Others would attribute Germany’s foreign-policy stance not so much to a renunciation of militarism as to greed, opportunism and cynicism on the part of its business leaders and politicians. After all, among the strongest supporters of sending heavy armaments to Ukraine are the supposedly pacifist Greens. ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s statements and decisions since the start of Russia’s war have been nothing short of bizarre. ...

As such, Germany is heading for another grave historical humiliation for which it will spend years—if not decades—apologising and correcting itself. But no one will believe that it is truly sorry, especially not in Eastern Europe, which is Germany’s biggest economic partner. The central principle of Polish foreign policy is the so-called Giedroyc doctrine: Poland will not be independent without an independent Ukraine. This principle was formulated when postwar Poland shed its own imperial illusions and accepted its eastern borders without Vilnius and Lviv.

Unless Germany starts to act like its allies, a huge political breach in Europe is inevitable. ..."

The moral bankruptcy of German pacifism | The Strategist