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The leaders of the United States and Germany on Thursday announced they were sending armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine, ramping up military support for Kyiv to repel Russian forces after a similar move by France earlier this week.

The French president's move heightens the pressure on German chancellor Olaf Scholz to approve allies' transfer of German-built Leopard battle tanks.

Guardrails and statesmanship will be even more important this time around.

Pundits reviewing 2022 are heaving a palpable sigh of relief. This was the year, or so the consensus goes, when far-right strongmen such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro were enfeebled, China stumbled and the “West” made a comeback, at least against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.

When President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington on Wednesday, the US announced that it would finally be sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine, 300 days into the war. However, the Biden administration declined to give Ukraine ATACM long-range missiles due to wariness about escalation risks, and declined to send US tanks because…

Russian President Vladimir Putin played the energy card on Europe to undercut Ukraine. Europe called his bluff.

Eco-warriors have cut off the top of a huge Christmas tree in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate as part of a climate protest.

Climate activists say they have sawed off the tip of the Christmas tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate