The leak of a 38-minute conversation between German generals on sending Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine suggests that NATO’s will not to escalate the war is weakening.
As the columnist writes Guardian Simon Jenkins, the generals’ talks took place over an unencrypted line with the secrecy of a teenage group chat. The journalist notes that this incident strengthened the narrative of dictator Vladimir Putin that Russia is allegedly fighting against NATO.
“As the conflict in Ukraine has reached a predictable stalemate, NATO strategy has lost all coherence. This is the point at which such wars spiral out of control,” Jenkins writes.
The journalist noted that Western leaders are encouraging President Vladimir Zleensky to fight until complete victory. Only French President Emmanuel Macron has at least offered to send troops.
Germany’s generals probably want the war to escalate, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has long been cautious. At the same time, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the West must ensure that Russia’s war “continues to be a strategic failure.”
“Moscow can always play for a long time in war… Ukraine has become more and more like a NATO mercenary for Western generals who want to increase their budgets and relive the Cold War games of their youth. The price is paid by their taxpayers and Ukrainian youth,” the columnist writes.
In his opinion, Western Europe has no interest in escalating the war by supplying long-range missiles. A number of countries have no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to oust Russia from the predominantly Russian-speaking regions of Crimea or Donbass, but are interested in persistently seeking a speedy settlement and the beginning of the restoration of Ukraine.
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Leaked conversation between German generals
Let us recall that last week Russian propagandists published a recording of a conversation between representatives of the German Air Force, in which they discussed the possibility of transferring Taurus missiles to Ukraine, as well as the use of these missiles to attack the Crimean Bridge.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called the publication of this conversation a Russian hybrid attack carried out in order to “undermine the resolve” of the allies. He ordered an investigation into the incident.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Germans “were not completely denazified.”
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2024-03-05 08:26:00
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