The train to Europe’s moral high ground with respect to Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine has left the station, and Germany’s top leadership appears to have missed it. In a decision that will call into question Berlin’s commitment to defending Ukraine against Russian aggression, officials from the German chancellor’s Social Democratic party this week rejected a bid to expel a former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, over close ties to the Kremlin, for which he refuses to apologize.