.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, has withstood residential as well as worldwide tension to provide Ukraine with German-made Taurus cruise line projectiles, a precise, long-range munition. Determined to help a considerably beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have prepared ingenious schemes to aid transform Germany’s mind. David Cameron, Britain’s overseas secretary, has hinted his visibility to a program that would view Germany deliver Taurus projectiles to Britain, hence permitting Britain to send out additional of its Storm Trace cruise projectiles to Ukraine.
Yet Mr Scholz declines to move. What are Taurus rockets– and why is the German authorities so unwilling to send them to Ukraine?