.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, has stood up to residential and also worldwide pressure to offer Ukraine with German-made Taurus cruise ship rockets, a precise, long-range munition. Determined to aid a considerably beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have cooked up smart schemes to assist transform Germany’s mind. David Cameron, Britain’s overseas secretary, has suggested his openness to a program that will see Germany send Taurus projectiles to Britain, therefore enabling Britain to deliver more of its own Storm Shadow voyage missiles to Ukraine.
Yet Mr Scholz rejects to budge. What are actually Taurus rockets– and why is the German authorities thus reluctant to deliver all of them to Ukraine?