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How is the Russian war in Ukraine going? According to experts, a “serious diplomatic solution” is currently not in sight. Instead, they are asking the West to supply more and better weapons.
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Berlin – Several German scientists and military experts see no scope for a “serious diplomatic solution” with regard to the Ukraine war at this point in time. In a guest article for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, the 22 authors call for an increase in “the level and quantity of Western arms deliveries” to Ukraine so that the country can avert a “dictated peace”. Should Ukraine succumb to the Russian attack, it is to be expected that Moscow will plan further wars “to destroy the European security order,” they warned.
The signatories to the guest article included military expert Carlo Masala from the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich, military historian Sönke Neitzel from the University of Potsdam and several former generals in the German Armed Forces. With their contribution they contradicted an open letter from German writers, journalists and philosophers who had called for the war to be ended as quickly as possible in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit at the end of June under the headline “Armistice now!”.
In the new guest article, the authors warn that peace cannot be achieved with a hasty “diplomatic solution”. This would send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that invasions will be rewarded with land gains, the obliteration of sovereign states and geopolitical power expansion, the professors and ex-military officials warn.
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