Germany now frames its military support for Kyiv as strategic self-interest, but a sluggish economy and energy shocks threaten to fracture domestic consensus. Germany has chosen resolve over hesitation. During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s April 14 visit to Berlin, the Merz government translated political promises into a concrete package. This includes funding for hundreds of Patriot missiles and additional IRIS-T launchers, joint drone production, hundreds of millions of euros for