The Kremlin exposes Chancellor and Luftwaffe at the worst moment

On March 1, an English-language tv RT sponsored by Kremlin revealed a 38-minute recording of the Luftwaffe officers' conversation of February 19. The military wondered whether he would be technically capable of destroying the Kerchen Bridge with Taurus Kiev missiles. They besides talked about how France and the United Kingdom were preparing Ukrainian troops to service the maneuvering rockets they were given. They besides mentioned the presence of civilian personnel speaking with a "American accent". There have been reports that the implementation of the Taurus strategy in Ukraine is possible within 3 to 8 months. The military agreed that political decision was missing, but admitted that not even 100 rockets would change the course of war. However, the reason for Taurus' supply could be that the British are moving out of Storm Shadows missiles and the French are moving out of Scalp missiles. The officers added that if it comes to handing over the Tauruses, the chancellor wants the Bundeswehr soldiers to service them in Ukraine.

‘Party of Peace’

When German journalists asked Olaf Scholz about this on 4 March, he simply stated that German soldiers should not be stationed in Ukraine and that "in no way and in no place can they be linked to the objectives that the Taurus strategy can achieve". Control of mark coordinates can besides be carried out with the RFN. And on the mission of the Bundeswehr soldiers in Ukraine would gotta agree with the Bundestag. Scholz, like last year erstwhile he opposed the transportation of Leopard tanks, again argues that as Chancellor he is liable for the safety of Germany and is subject to his decisions. This SPD politician, who presents himself in the election run as a “party of peace”, believes that his attitude will aid avoid the escalation of war into the NATO area. Scholz besides added that he was afraid of misusing rockets with a scope of up to 500 km, or Ukraine (for example, after the change of power in Kiev) could scope even Moscow. Storm Shadows and Scalp can beat only 250 km. Chancellor defends himself that even the US did not supply Ukraine with long-range missiles.

German media do not leave a dry thread on the military, who utilized a U.S.-based but accessible WebEx web application. The army should not usage programs that during the pandemic were utilized to contact teachers with students. Officers connected from mobile phones and 1 from a hotel in Singapore. Military Counterintelligence (MAD) is already investigating safety violations.

The government began to defend itself.

Finance Minister Christian Lindner said, “This is an emergency signal that we are Putin’s target”, and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius added, “Russia is waged an information war to make divisions in our country.” Roderich Kiesewetter, an expert in defence from the opposition to the CDU government, stated: “Russia has revealed this conversation now due to the fact that it may prevent Germany from delivering Taurus. The Kremlin wants to scare Scholz away, publically showing how much he already knows about German preparations."

The leak was besides commented in Moscow and London. Dmitri Medvedev quoted a poem from planet War II that says it is good to kill German soldiers. Dmitri Pieskov stated that the recording proves that the Bundeswehr discusses circumstantial attacks on targets in Russia: "This besides shows Western direct commitment to conflict in Ukraine".

Scholz is seemingly guided by social sentiments. The latest poll of 5 March by YouGov for DPA has shown that only 28 percent of the German voters are in favour of supplying the Taurus Ukraine. As many as 58 percent are against. And 31 percent of this group are in general opposed to supplying German weapons to Ukraine. 14 percent have no opinion.