A Green foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, confirmed in parliament that Germany would indeed be sending weapons to Ukraine. And a liberal finance minister, Christian Lindner, told MPs that the toughest sanctions imaginable were now necessary, even though they would hit the economy hard. “But we are ready to carry the cost because this is the cost of freedom,” Mr Lindner said. Old political certainties about peacekeeping are being ditched in Germany. Left-wing politicians and many voters are unhappy with higher spending on weapons. But since the invasion there has been a dawning realisation here that, if successful in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin may not stop there.
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