.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, has actually stood up to domestic and international stress to offer Ukraine along with German-made Taurus cruise ship missiles, a precise, long-range munition. Hopeless to help an increasingly beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have actually cooked up creative schemes to aid modify Germany’s mind. David Cameron, Britain’s foreign assistant, has actually prompted his openness to a program that will see Germany send out Taurus missiles to Britain, thus enabling Britain to send out more of its own Tornado Breath cruise projectiles to Ukraine.
Yet Mr Scholz declines to move. What are Taurus missiles– and why is the German authorities thus hesitant to deliver them to Ukraine?