President told Munich Security Conference that there is ‘no alternative’ but to defeat Russia
“There is no alternative but to defeat Goliath who came to destroy our lives; there is alternative to our victor and there is no alternative to our determination of all of us,” he said.
A year in, he said Berlin had “assumed the responsibility” that Ukraine and its partners expected. As continental Europe’s largest supplier of arms to Kyiv, Mr Scholz said Berlin would “continue to strike the balance the best possible support for Ukraine and avoiding unintended escalation”. To maintain European unity on supplies of arms and equipment, as well as additional training for Ukrainian soldiers, the chancellor offered German assistance and urged the EU to “pull together strategically when it comes to arms policy”.Echoing that call, President Emmanuel Macron of France said creating a “durable, credible peace” in Europe depends on closer EU co-operation on defence spending and for Europe to take its place in a future security order.
Rather than choose a path of growth and innovation in the post-Cold War era, he said Russia tried to “fix its future with crazy dreams and ... resumed the old dream of empire based on hegemony and aggression”.
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