There’s little doubt that the months-long war in eastern Ukraine is taking its toll on the rest of Europe — and in particular, Germany. But if the West is serious about ending the fighting, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, it cannot send more arms to the front — as Washington is weighing.
“It might only take days to spark a crisis but it could well take years to resolve it,” Steinmeier said Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Instead, he said, preserving transatlantic unity is key to checking Russian President Vladimir Putin, and NATO allies need to have …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
