NATO has worked for 30 years to encircle Russia with offensive weapons, showed in Yugoslavia in 1999 that it is ready to risk a world war, installed a fascist-fanatical regime in Kiev in 2014, which has been covering the east of Ukraine with war ever since, adopted a first-strike doctrine again in 2016 and has been threatening with nuclear weapons on a regular basis ever since.
The intervention of Russia on February 24, 2022 was an attempt at an emergency brake. To let them fail, Scholz, Baerbock, etc. are determined and ready for anything.
The world is in greater danger than in the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 or during the "retrofitting" in 1983. Voices of reason have nothing more to say in the West, only outside.
This proxy war was wanted, planned and deliberately provoked by the US and NATO since they installed a puppet pro-west and anti-Russia puppet government in Kiev, financed, armed and trained neonazi paramilitary militias to fight as proxies against Russia.
Since the dissolution of the URSS, the warmongers in Washington have been pushing for a military confront with Russia with the view of conquering the Eurasian landmass and plunder its strategic natural resources.