Ukraine's Ambitious Plan to Counter Russia's Missile Supply Angers German Chancellor

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a militaristic speech at the SPD’s European festival in Falkensee, accusing Russia of being an imperialist power and the main aggressor in the conflict in Ukraine. He shouted down war opponents and threatened Russia, claiming that Putin wants to destroy and conquer Ukraine. Scholz's angry war speech against Russia has been compared to Hitler's rhetoric. German imperialism is taking up its old great-power traditions, and the German government is escalating the war in full awareness that it can lead to a nuclear catastrophe. The only way to prevent a devastating third world war is to build an antiwar movement of the international working class that eliminates the cause of war—the capitalist profit system—and builds a global socialist society.