But for the record, Putin has shown himself to have little regard for anything besides ending up in the history books next to Stalin & Hitler.
This is all very reminiscent of "Hillary is just as bad as Trump". Seems to be a common logical fallacy that you can't have something that is better than the alternative but still not good enough.
Instead people have to exaggerate to make the better one just as bad, which then has the implicit claim that the worse one is just the same as the better one in this metric.
Whatever Germany is doing or not doing, it seems unlikely to approach the same level as invading Ukraine and killing a whole bunch of people.
I am however pointing out that Germany is delaying and holding back the response to a European country being invaded.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_friends_like_these_who_n...
"An expression indicating that one's close associates prove more adversarial than one's opponents."
Probably just an unconscious idiom, but the use of the word "enemy" in context of an invasion seemed to be a bit too loaded a term.