On Sunday in a week's time, ARD will be showing a portrait film that Arte has already shown and that can be found in the media library until the end of May.

"Angela Merkel - In the course of time" is the name of the work by Torsten Körner.

It is, as the ARD thinks, about an "exceptional politician".

If you take the film's point of view, you could also speak of a "superheroine".

An hour and a half of hagiography, at the end Barack Obama and Christine Lagarde give the former Chancellor a role that is steeped in history.

Obama says she never lost sight of the value of freedom, and Lagarde says she was the force that held Europe together.

The film is shocking in its self-importance.

It is significant that ARD and MDR are now showing it again specifically.

Ukraine doesn't appear in this film, Vladimir Putin doesn't play a role, it's not about Nord Stream 2, it's not about the annexation of Crimea, Eastern Europe doesn't seem to exist at all.

Instead, the social scientist Naika Foroutan says the crazy sentence about Merkel: “She has put Germany on a new historical track.

After 2015, the perspective on this country suddenly changed in terms of global politics, because of this chancellor, because of that one moment in which she said: 'We can do it.'"

The world political perspective

The geopolitical perspective on the Federal Republic has actually changed.

The German government is perceived by the western allies, by the EU and NATO partners in Eastern Europe anyway, as a shaky candidate, hesitant to support Ukraine in its struggle for survival, hesitant to give up gas, coal and oil, which we use as war criminals and mass murderers Putin delivers to say goodbye.

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy prevented Ukraine from becoming a member of NATO in 2008.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder likes Putin's payroll, Manuela Schwesig ran the Nord Stream 2 business to the end, Michael Kretschmer is already thinking, as he said in an interview with the FAZ (April 12), of the time after the war and remembering that we "must continue to live with Russia as our neighbor".

That sounds like eyes closed - and through, and that also seems to be the motto that Chancellor Olaf Scholz follows.

He speaks of a turning point, but nothing changes.

The Russian army invades Ukraine.

Murder, torture, rape, expulsion, looting, the bombing of entire cities, ie war crimes, make up their "strategy".

But the SPD would like, as the Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck says, to stop supplying arms to Ukraine altogether.

“We cannot leave Ukraine alone in the war.

She also fights for us," says Habeck in an interview with the newspapers of the Funke media group.

"Ukraine must not lose, Putin must not win."

Should it come as a surprise that Ukraine isn't keen on a visit from the Federal President?

Even if Frank-Walter Steinmeier, unlike Angela Merkel, now at least admits mistakes?

“My sticking to Nord Stream 2,” he said, “was clearly a mistake.

We held on to bridges that Russia no longer believed in and that our partners warned us about.” No longer believed?

Anyone who has followed Vladimir Putin's career knows that the Russian ruler never believed in "bridges", but rather duped Steinmeier and the others.

For this blindness, Ukrainians pay the highest price.

While begging for guns, the Germans are thinking about heating bills, not about a "turn of the era".

The Greens and some in the FDP and the Union seem to have understood what the historical hour has come and they want to stop trying to convince citizens “We can do it” that everything is not so bad and can be done regulate cost-effectively.

That was the life lie of the grand coalition, whose habitus Olaf Scholz took over from his predecessor.

The "good neighbor" Putin establishes a fascist dictatorship and starts a war of extermination, but in Berlin the "splendid isolation" remains.

It's not just politicians who have to ask themselves how nobody noticed what was going on.

"I've often tried to bring this up in the German media and said: 'People in Russia talk about war all the time.

They also talk about war with Europe, with the West'”

said the German-Ukrainian politician and publicist Marina Weisband, who is active in the Greens, in an interview with the news channel ntv.

At expert panels on Russian television, it has become "completely normal" to "discuss how the Baltic States could be taken or how a nuclear war could go".

It might not be too late to heed those whose warnings have been ignored for years.

And act accordingly.

The Russian offensive, with which Putin wants to complete his project of "denazification", i.e. the annihilation of Ukraine, is imminent.

Happy Easter doesn't exist.