Tomorrow’s Washington Post editorial is live: Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced Germany will not only arm Ukraine’s forces, but rearm its own, committing to spend more than the NATO minimum of 2 percent of its economic output on defense. https://t.co/bhQrpW4pww

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) February 28, 2022

The applause that greeted Chancellor Scholz’s words in Germany was the sound of a mature democracy, Europe’s richest and largest, dealing a strategic defeat to the Kremlin’s decades-long effort at co-opting it. Putin’s aggression is backfiring.

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) February 28, 2022