If a foreign nation engages in a plot to assassinate one of your top businessmen, you should probably respond robustly. This is especially true if said plot originates from Russia.

After all, Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s government perceives weakness in the same way that a bull shark smells in blood in the water. Namely, as an irresistible invitation for further aggression. Unfortunately, Germany is excusing just such an assassination plot. In doing so, Chancellor Olaf Scholz‘s government is again showing its broad unseriousness in the face of Russian aggression.