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"Historical error" - serious allegations against Germany in dealing with Ukraine

2022-03-06T11:20:20.646Z


"Historical error" - serious allegations against Germany in dealing with Ukraine Created: 03/06/2022, 12:09 p.m By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has also criticized Germany with regard to Ukraine's reluctance to join the alliance. © José Villalgordo/imago images The Ukraine conflict also revolves around a possible NATO membership of Kyiv. An ex-NATO b


"Historical error" - serious allegations against Germany in dealing with Ukraine

Created: 03/06/2022, 12:09 p.m

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has also criticized Germany with regard to Ukraine's reluctance to join the alliance.

© José Villalgordo/imago images

The Ukraine conflict also revolves around a possible NATO membership of Kyiv.

An ex-NATO boss has now criticized the reluctance and shot at Germany.

Munich - In the Ukraine conflict, violent clashes between Russia and Ukraine continue in many regions.

The clashes are no longer limited to eastern Ukraine.

This map illustrates where the Ukraine war is raging.

Russian troops try to advance further with airstrikes, artillery, rockets and ultimately infantry and take more and more Ukrainian territory.

This map shows the territories already conquered in the Ukraine war.

As the fighting intensified, Western allies such as NATO countries supported Ukraine with humanitarian aid, but also with arms deliveries.

While Ukraine is a key partner, it is not a member of the Alliance, and as a result, the ability to support Ukraine in contrast to member states is much more limited.

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen now took aim at the member states' reluctance to join Ukraine for years, and he also criticized Germany in particular.

Ukraine war: Ex-NATO chief criticizes member countries - "Putin should have opposed much earlier"

Against the background of the Ukraine crisis, ex-NATO Secretary General Rasmussen described Germany's reluctance to join NATO as a "historic mistake".

The western alliance made many mistakes, Rasmussen told the

Augsburger Allgemeine

in Brussels.

"One of them is that at the 2008 NATO summit we couldn't decide to offer Ukraine and Georgia an action plan for membership," Rasmussen said.

At that time, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) played a major role in this.

Ex-US President George Bush called for a membership plan for Ukraine and Georgia at the summit.

Chancellor Merkel, however, disagreed and rejected the project.

Such a step would increase tensions with Russia, she justified her actions.

Referring to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Rasmussen said: "He concluded that the NATO allies are weak and divided.

Then he attacked Georgia to send a clear message that we should not interfere in his neighborhood.” The West acted similarly “weakly and too slowly” when Putin occupied Crimea in 2014.

"In retrospect, we should have confronted Putin much earlier," emphasized the ex-NATO chief.

Ukraine war: Germany also in Rasmussen's sights - "great critic of German hesitation"

Rasmussen also commented on German arms deliveries to Ukraine.

For a long time, Berlin refused direct arms deliveries and thus received strong criticism.

Germany's credibility as a NATO ally and even Berlin's role in the alliance was called into question.

The turning point finally came recently and the federal government decided to supply Ukraine with anti-tank missiles and surface-to-air missiles against the Russian invasion.

Former NATO chief Rasmussen said he was a big critic of Germany's hesitation, and that he appreciates the decisions that have now been made on arms deliveries all the more.

"They mark a turning point, not only in recent German history, but also for Europe," said Rasmussen.

"Germany has finally emerged from the shadow of World War II," he remarked.

A policy of appeasement with dictators never leads to peace, only to conflict or even war.

Putin is acting "like a madman" and is currently achieving the opposite of his goals: namely a more closed EU, a stronger NATO and more NATO troops on the Russian border.

Russia is now "internationally expelled, led by a political gangster," Rasmussen pointed out.

(bb with material from dpa)

Source: merkur

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