Alexander J. Motyl: The dangerous perspective of Theo Sommer
German chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Ukraininian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman review a guard of honour before talks at the chancellery in Berlin on June 27, 2016.
This time, Theo Sommer has outdone himself. After closing his eyes to the mass murders of the Soviet regime in an article published on May 31, the editor-at-large of Germany’s prestigious Die Zeit newspaper has now demonstrated in a just-published piece an alarming ignorance not just of Ukraine but of elementary strategic logic. The former is scandalous, given Ukraine’s prominence in the news. The latter is dangerous and could destroy Europe.
