.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor, has actually avoided domestic as well as global pressure to provide Ukraine with German-made Taurus trip missiles, a precise, long-range munition. Determined to assist a more and more beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have actually devised clever programs to help alter Germany's thoughts. David Cameron, Britain's foreign secretary, has suggested his visibility to a strategy that would observe Germany send Taurus missiles to Britain, thereby enabling Britain to send even more of its own Storm Shadow boat trip rockets to Ukraine. Yet Mr Scholz refuses to move. What are Taurus rockets-- and why is the German government thus reluctant to deliver them to Ukraine?