Two months after Russia s invasion of Ukraine last year, Jurgen Habermas, perhaps Germany s leading public intellectual, published a commentary that triggered one of the country s most ferocious political debates in decades. Habermas asked how Germany should position itself in the widening Russian-Ukrainian war. Germans still haven t reached any agreement on an answer.
BERLIN Two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Jürgen Habermas, perhaps Germany’s leading public intellectual, published a commentary that triggered one of the country’s most ferocious political debates in decades. Habermas asked how Germany should position itself in the widening Russian-Ukrainian war. Germans still haven’t reached any agreement on an answer.