Ukraine expert Winfried Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia's war against
Ukraine with three timely essays written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022 2023. He
critically discusses the ambivalent reception of Russian aggression not only in German society.
Calls by intellectuals to stop arms deliveries and to negotiate and compromise with the
aggressor are in effect calls for surrender in the author's view their signatories are thus
making themselves into Putin's useful idiots. Schneider-Deters points out the parallels between
Putin and Hitler and analyzes the Russian Weimar syndrome after the collapse of the Soviet
Union as well as the roots of the current specifically Russian fascism the Rushism. He also
gives a detailed account of the crimes committed by Russia's armed forces in Ukraine under
international law. The International Criminal Court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction
over the crime of aggression the supreme international crime Schneider-Deters discusses the
possible steps to create a new international tribunal along the lines of the Nuremberg trials
a Nuremberg II in order to be able to hold the aggressor Putin criminally responsible.
