Brandt’s remarks are a reminder that many Social Democrats are still reluctant to embrace the country’s “Zeitenwende” — a historic turning point — on defence, which former SPD chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Wow what weasely writing. The Social Democrats don’t want to build up another German military-industrial nightmare and the press says they are still reluctant to embrace austerity in favor of world war.

Well. The social democrats are going to lose, like they always do in an economic crisis, and many will die because of it.