Recently, 18 German politicians and intellectuals published an open letter to the German government, in which they basically suggested forcing Ukraine to surrender in its war with Russia. This appeal was a response to the growing demand of the German public to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons.

The text of the letter boils down to the fact that it is necessary to satisfy “Russia’s legitimate security interests” and that “Ukraine will lose anyway, so it must be forced to surrender”, because “despite multiple reports of the Ukrainian army’s successes, it is still much weaker than the Russian one and has no chance to win this war”.