Tearing down the wall

Zelensky's Bundestag speech

Dear Reader,

Last Thursday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by video link to the Bundestag. It was a brilliant and moving speech in which he told of how Germany had constructed a wall between itself and Ukraine.

This is a wall which no one on the Ukrainian side can see, he said. But it exists and it’s made of money. The German mantra of “Wirts…