Germany Will Not Provide Ukraine its Most Feared Weapon: Chancellor
Ukraine will receive $61 billion in weapons from the U.S., but it lost the war and is running out of men to send to the front.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that his decision not to provide Ukraine with Taurus missiles has not changed and will not change, despite the U.S.-led effort to escalate the war.
"My decision is very clear with respect to one particular armament system. But my decision is also clear in that we will still provide the strongest support for Ukraine in Europe, and Germany, along with the UK, will continue to be the two countries that do the most," Scholz said, according to Ukraine’s Pravda.
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Scholz, who has become one of Russia’s chief critics in Europe, said his government is fully committed to the war effort. Germany is the second biggest contributor to the war effort, behind the U.S., having provided Ukraine with an estimated €17.7 billion in weapons.
Scholz’s refusal to bend on providing Ukraine with his country’s top weapon has created some tension between Kyiv and Berlin.
Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo in Norway, told Newsweek that Germany’s Taurus is more lethal than the U.S. ATACMS and the U.K.’s Storm Shadow missiles. These Taurus missiles have a range of 310 miles and are considered the most modern weapon in the German arsenal.
The U.S. has provided Ukraine with ATACMS in its latest round of support.
Dimitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said these weapons will only result in “more problems for Ukraine.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the real reason Scholz has not provided Kyiv with Berlin’s prized Taurus missiles is because he fears a Russian invasion himself and believes parting with these weapons would leave his country vulnerable since it is not a nuclear power.
Ever since U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson had a come-to-Jesus moment and miraculously started backing the funding bill, rhetoric from the West has intensified.
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who famously thanked the U.S. for bombing Nord Stream (before deleting the post), said in a speech Wednesday that Russia would lose in a war with NATO.
"It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” he said, according to Politico Europe. “It is worth reminding about this, not to increase the sense of threat in the Russians, because NATO is a defensive pact, but to show that an attack by Russia on any of the members of the Alliance would end in its [Russia's] inevitable defeat.”
Ray McGovern, the former CIA analyst, told the “Dialogue Works” podcast earlier this week that he would not put it past the Biden administration “sophomores” to use a “low-yield nuclear weapon”
He said the “sophomores” who advise Biden – like National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken – may recommend something like a low-yield nuke to get through the election. to help save face in Ukraine before the 2024 election.
He continued, “Now I say that because I want people to think about that. You know, the Russians have no need to use a nuclear weapon. They're winning. The only thing that could reverse it or stop it would be this incredibly stupid and dangerous step, and I wouldn’t put it past the Blinkens and the Sullivans of this world, unfortunately.”