The Chancellor is trying once again to end the dispute over arms deliveries to Ukraine. This time he calls the debate embarrassing and ridiculous. But the exchange of blows in the traffic light coalition continues happily.

Anton Hofreiter has a certain pity for the Chancellor, even understanding. The Green Party's defense politician sat in the attic of a large book publisher in Berlin on Tuesday and, with a view to the war in Ukraine and Olaf Scholz (SPD), spoke of the fact that this Chancellor had some “tragedies”: wanting to imitate Chancellor Merkel at a time , in which that doesn't work and having the task of leading not only German society into a completely new era, but also the SPD. “As I said, I also have a certain amount of pity and understanding,” says Hofreiter. But in the end he is the chancellor.

Hofreiter is speaking at the launch of a book about the Chancellor during the war, and he is doing so at a time, on a day even, when all the tragedies he mentioned surrounding the German debate on support for Ukraine are once again becoming fully apparent: from the struggle to deliver the Taurus cruise missiles to the “freezing” mind games at the top of the SPD faction. The situation is difficult for the traffic light coalition, especially large parts of the Greens and FDP factions want to send the Taurus to Ukraine, while the Social Democrats do not. But above all is the question: Is Germany doing enough?