.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, has avoided domestic and also international stress to provide Ukraine with German-made Taurus boat trip missiles, a precise, long-range munition. Despairing to assist a progressively beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have fabricated ingenious schemes to help modify Germany’s mind. David Cameron, Britain’s international assistant, has actually hinted his visibility to a plan that will see Germany send out Taurus projectiles to Britain, hence enabling Britain to deliver more of its Storm Trace trip missiles to Ukraine.
Yet Mr Scholz refuses to shift. What are Taurus rockets– and why is the German authorities so reluctant to send all of them to Ukraine?