Message to Olaf Scholz: send tanks to Ukraine now – and lay the path for a negotiated peace | Simon Jenkins

The German chancellor should be bold, but even then there will never be ‘total victory’: the best hope is a ceasefire and a deal

A German reluctance to fan the flames of war in Europe would, in the past, have been widely welcomed. So much for the past. The hesitation of the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to send his Leopard tanks to Ukraine for a spring battle in Donbas now looks alarmingly like a peace offering to Vladimir Putin.

A large western armoury has already been built up in Ukraine, but ...