Bangladesh, May 28 -- By all appearances, Friedrich Merzs recent comments about lifting restrictions on German weapons used by Ukraine have stirred not only political confusion but potentially geopolitical instability. Merz, the leader of Germanys conservative CDU/CSU bloc and a likely future chancellor candidate, told a public audience that there are now “no range limits” on German-supplied weapons being used by Ukrainian forces against Russia. In so doing, he reignited one of Germanys most dangerous debates: whether to send the long-range Taurus cruise missile to Kyiv – a weapon that could strike deep into Russian territory and, perhaps, change the nature of Germanys involvement in the Ukraine war from that of a proxy ...