In the night of Thursday, the Russian military attacked houses in Kiev with rockets and drones. At least nine people died that more than 70 were injured, the Ukrainian disaster protection said.
All of this happened at the behest Vladimir Putin, while Donald Trump announced in Washington that he had “a deal with Russia”. It was now a matter of making an agreement with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Trump said: “I thought it would be easier to negotiate with Selenskyj.”
A few hours earlier, the US President, Selenskyj’s refusal to accept the occupation of Crimea by the Russians, scolded “very harmful to peace negotiations”.
Now you could ask polemically when Trump is finally ready to give Alaska (until 1867 Russian) Putin. One can also guess that the mediocre real estate merchant Trump finally wants to get into the business with mineral resources and nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
Or you can remind you sober that the government of a certain Donald Trump asked Putin in 2018 to withdraw from the Crimea. But all of this will not stop the would-be autocrats in the White House from being on the glue to the Russian ruler admired.
Europe has to prepare
It would be much more important if Germany is finally preparing for Putin’s witness. Everything exaggerated? Everything panicked? The more appeased would be good to hear exactly what Dimitri Medvedev gives himself or Putin’s propaganda moderator Vladimir Solowjow.
For example, when Germany announces anti -aircraft weapons against Russian bombs, Solojow is raging in Russian state television to records of destroyed Ukrainian cities: “Realizes you (Germans) that the German cities will look exactly the same! But we will handle the Germans much harder. We will simply clear everything off!”
How does Germany want to prepare for an emergency? The coalition agreement provides insufficient answers. CDU, CSU and SPD make it too easy for autocrats such as Putin, Trump and XI. The fact that SPD boss Lars Klingbeil refers to the possibility of getting into the leader in the troops when trying to make the Bundeswehr more attractive.
The waiver of reintroducing military service could quickly catch up with black and red. In the coalition negotiations, the Union pleaded for a return to compulsory military service, but had to bow to the hinged social democrats. It won’t stay. The SPD should remember its own voting behavior. In 2011, the SPD voted against the suspension of conscription.
203,000 soldiers for 84 million inhabitants?
How do you want the SPD to grow the Bundeswehr, who currently counts almost 183,000 soldiers, appropriately? The target number of 203,000 soldiers determined in 2020 has a long time for Europe’s largest economic strength with 84 million inhabitants.
Schwarz-Rot wants to increase the expenditure for defense “clearly and stringent”. The generous exception to the debt brake is justifiable. But how will the SPD react when NATO will define in June, what exactly it wants, what its demands on Germany are?
Will SPD general secretary Matthias Miersch then warn of an “escalation” again? When the delivery of the March aircraft Taurus recently debated again, Miersch Germany (and not Russia) warned of this.
Anyone who hears such hollow formulas doubts about the willingness of the federal government to defend freedom. The generation, which demonstrated on the Bonn Hofgarten, has an effect. German dreams à la Rolf Mützenich, the naive handling of despot, shape the country.
Perhaps Germany should finally listen to Esten, Lithuania, Latvian and Poland today. Incidentally, Poland has long been aiming for an army with 300,000 men and wants to invest five percent of economic strength in his defense. A little Polish realism would do Germany well.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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