WARSAW - While protests swept Maidan Square in Kyiv, both Polish and German media reported the same storyline: Ukraine was overthrowing a bloody dictator and changing its course toward the West. German politicians, much like their Polish counterparts, made fiery speeches and pushed the European Union to address a "serious offer" to Ukrainians.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Worldcrunch: Germany’s blindness on Russia, a Polish viewpoint
For more than 10 years, Berlin shaped its relations with Moscow according to the concept of a \"partnership for modernization,\" which in practice is a dense network of contacts, transactions, trade, financial and political agreements entwining Russia that was supposed to make the Kremlin a more predictable geopolitical player.
