marie—agnes strack—zimmerman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for the invitation.a pleasure to be here. let's start with that word that olaf schulz used right after putin's invasion of ukraine, "zeitenwende". he promised it would be that word, a turning point for germany and its strategic thinking. more than a year later, do we see real evidence of that turning point, that zeitenwende? yes, yes, definitely we see it. it's a really important word, but it's, of course, not only a word, you need it in your mind. um, first of all, we have now the 100 billion euros for the bundeswehr. this is really important, more money for our army. we are looking for it for years. you said not so long ago that the german army has been bled dry. so now it's the right direction. but that's an extraordinary thing for you to say. how could germany allow its military machine to become useless? yeah, it's...it�*s a story of the ending of the cold war, 1990. and everybody thought all over the world that after, you know, after the cold war, everything will be fine. everything will be like li