Limited resources. Giving Ukraine Taurus costs time, money and other resources. If those can be better used for another system, then that is the better option.

The main purpose for Taurus is to hit nuclear missile silos. So it is design to be stealthy and accurate with a decent warhead. However that also makes them really expensive. So Germany does not have too many to begin with and most of them are actually needed in case Russia actually might go nuclear.

For Ukraine it is not a terribly useful system. Striking nuclear missile silos is pretty useless. Most other targets can be more easily served with a more conventional and cheaper Shahed like drone too. It would be better for Germany to deliver licensed built or self developed long range Shahed like drones in large numbers.

There is a difference between aiding and committing genocide. So the more likely outcome is that Germany looses its special relationship with Israel. Especially if the US looses its.

Also lets be real. The phrasing they used was that it is difficult to imagine an arrest of Netanyahu in Germany. That can be easily had by him not traveling to Germany.

I would be inclined to say that I have difficulty imagining that we would make arrests in Germany on this basis.

So a nice way of saying that Germany is not going to arrest him.

Read a bit closer, this is not a wage cut, it is raising wages, but using a bit of financial trickery and an amazing spin to sell it as wage cuts.

That must be the best framing ever. The union proposes a raise in wages, but in form of a work time fund, which then can be used to actually work less or be paid out at a later date. They then manage to spin it into a wage cut.

More like the EU is more likely to be hard on China in the starting trade war.

Nicely worded, but it pretty much is: " You transfer ip and we are nice to you or we tariff you to hell and back."

Mainly to France, which otherwise would have increased its gas consumption.

In 2023, when Putin shut down gas supply to Germany and Germany needed coal to preserve gas. Also the deal included half of Germanys brown coal power plants to be shut down by 2030, which was all the plants of the company strip mining. Also the village was bought out by the coal company years before the Greens gave the permit to have it demolished.

Just thought the context really matters in this case.

Habeck was lobbying for delivering weapons to Ukraine in 2021. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/habeck-gruene-zu-waffenlieferungen-an-ukraine-die-ukraine-100.html

Really? The Greens are the most hawkish party in Germany, when it comes to Russia.

Scholz governing coalition fell apart a week ago and that means new elections in Feburary. The problem for Scholz is that the defense minister Pistorius is much more popular then him. However Pistorius is also more hawkish on Russia, which their party the SPD is generally not. So Scholz needs support from his party to actually be the candidate. Putin rather has Scholz then any of the other realistic option apart from a government including the far right AFD. Hence making Scholz look like a peace candidate is in both Scholz and Putins interest.

Honestly I doubt anything real comes from this. Both Russia and Ukraine are talking since the war started. There are embassies in Russia allowing for easy communication with lower level diplomats all the time. This is just show.

If colonialism has made those countries poor, then they should have gotten rich once they were no longer part of a colonial empire. At the same time countries which had large colonial empires should have gotten poor, when loosing their empire.

What we mostly see is that this is not the case. Portugal got rich after its empire collapsed. Spain was about as rich as its former colonies for a long time. France and the UK did not collapse after loosing their colonies. There are rich countries, which never did have many colonies or only small ones for a limited time, like Germany, Scandinavia or Switzerland. You also have Oman, which did not get rich despite having had colonies. We also have Africa, which only has Botswana as a country genuinly benefiting from no longer being a colony. However that was after diamonds were found inside Botswana shortly after independence. Funnily enough Botswana also asked to be a colony. Everybody else more or less failed to get rich.

That is not to say that colonial empires should not pay for crimes they comitted or return stolen artifacts. The benefits of colonialism were mostly going to a small elite in the colonial countries and cost the states a lot of resources, which in many cases would have been better spend on other projects.