It was Chancellor Olaf Scholz himself that set the bar for his trip to Kyiv so high that many feared he was doomed to fail. “I am not going to join the queue of people who do a quick in-and-out for a photo opportunity. If I go, it will be about concrete things,” he said a month ago.
Scholz didn’t travel to Kyiv alone but rather with two fellow Western European leaders — French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The trio represent the three most economically…