Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9240435

While France and Britain have passed on their own long-range SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, Chancellor Scholz (SPD, S&D) has mystified allies with his persistent reluctance to deliver equivalent German Taurus missiles.

Long-range weapons to strike behind enemy lines are among the most urgently needed weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend.

  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    When asked about the chancellors position on Taurus systems in a press conference on wednesday, his speaker Hebestreit proceeded to not answer the question, while claiming multiple times he had already answered it.

    When journalists asked again he insulted them, saying that his answers would be clear and that this would be 9th grade language comprehension. When journalists continued to ask he insulted them again saying, “i was unjust to the 9th graders, maybe this is 11th grade language comprehension.”

    German - Video of the press conference

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      8 months ago

      Did everyone decide to copy Trumps playbook? Can we have the adults back in the room please?

      Why not just answer the question?

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        8 months ago

        Sounds like he really didn’t want to answer. But why? Missiles already approved? Completely off the table? Why react emotionally?

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      8 months ago

      This sounds like it needs special programming and training to do so. So presumably German specialists would need to program and fire it at specific targets. Maybe that is where the hesitation by Scholz comes from, because then it wouldn’t just be a proxy war, but Germans would again be launching weapons into Russia.