Ukraine is the victim. The main secondary victims are poor countries who depend on wheat imports. Germany is not an aggressor, per see, but their poor judgemen

Ukraine is the victim. The main secondary victims are poor countries who depend on wheat imports. Germany is not an aggressor, per see, but their poor judgement in their relations with Russia has certainly contributed. Germany may point to WW2 and say "Never again", but if they insist on looking that far back, one could even argue that they made the biggest contribution of all to the apparent of Putin to surround himself with buffer states. And while we are back in WW2, German aggression in the 1930's is one of the primary reasons everyone in Europe (except, it seems, Germany and Hungary) become so paranoid when a powerful a country start to annex it's neighbours. Had Hitler stopped after taking the Sudetenland in 1938, modern Europeans might have been much less likely to assume that Putin would annex all of Ukraine and then proceed to Poland, the Baltics etc. By no means to I blame modern Germans for what happened 80 years ago, but I do hope that Germany can put WW2 behind them, and do their share in contributing to stability in Europe going forward. Imagine what the situation in Europe would be if someone like Trump wins in 2024, and decides to pull the USA out of NATO?