“I made it clear very early on that it’s not about combat aircraft and I’m doing that here too,” said the SPD politician. Ground troops will also “under no circumstances be sent,” said Scholz. “That’s what was said from the beginning, not only by me, but also by the American President. And together, that should probably be an important word.”
US President Joe Biden is “a really good partner for Scholz. I feel very, very much in agreement with the American President.” It was agreed that we would also like to act together in the future.
Left and AfD see tank decision critically
Some of the planned tank deliveries met with clear rejection from the opposition in the Bundestag. The CDU MP Florian Hahn welcomed the tank delivery on behalf of his faction. Due to the German government’s hesitation, however, “considerable damage” has occurred at the diplomatic level.
Left faction leader Amira Mohamed Ali spoke of a “historic failure of the SPD”. The Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz is thus dragging Germany further and further into the war, Mohamed Ali said on Wednesday.
AfD co-boss Alice Weidel spoke up Twitter of a “fatal decision”. “Instead of worrying about a further escalation of the conflict – the step to World War III is not that far away – the international community should work more intensively for peace negotiations,” said Weidel.
your party colleague Petr Bystron Scholz even accused Scholz of having “thrown the foundations of post-war German foreign policy overboard”. Scholz replied that it was a break with the political achievements of the post-war period that Russia had attacked Ukraine.
The first Leopard tanks could, according to the Federal Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius be in Ukraine in about three months. The SPD politician said on Wednesday after a meeting of the Bundestag’s Defense Committee in Berlin. The training is now beginning very quickly and the supply routes will be clarified very quickly.