German Chancellor Olaf Scholz issued a multi-pronged defence of his policy towards Ukraine on Friday, as the question of arms deliveries strains his three-way coalition and puts past German foreign policy under the spotlight. Since the start of the conflict, politicians inside and outside Germany have called for Europe’s biggest economy – and the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter – to do more to help the Ukrainian forces fight off the Russians. Scholz issue a response to the criticism in a wide-ranging interview with news magazine Spiegel, published on Friday. When it came to cutting Germany…