As defense leaders from more than 40 countries meet at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Tuesday to synchronize efforts to provide military aid to Ukraine, Berlin has been still struggling to synchronize the position of its own government.
. It had previously maintained that Germany’s world war history constrained it from sending weapons to an active conflict zone.But policy has lagged behind political and public pressure, even as evidence of Russian war crimes has built and Moscow has announced a new offensive in the country’s east.
Still, he said the announcement at Ramstein was a “strong signal” from Germany after so much reluctance. commissioned by German television station ARD. Before the February invasion, polls showed that more than two-thirds of Germans were against sending defensive arms.Despite its pacifist roots, Germany’s Greens party has also backed sending heavy weaponry, with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock this month urging western countries to do more.
“Almost two months after the time-turning speech, after all that has been learned of the innumerable crimes against civilians and the genocidal nature of the war, it has become clear that Germany still acts with its old mixture of reluctance, hesitation, and backsliding,” Berlin based analyst Oxana SchmiesAfter Tuesday’s announcement, Scholz’s reasoning as to why heavy arms deliveries weren’t possible looked “weak,” she said, but the planned deliveries are a good step.
“What will happen next month, or in two months from now, when the Ukrainians are running out of Soviet-style weapons systems?” he said. With the conflict in the country’s east looking like it could turn into a war of attrition, Ukrainians will need to be trained on Western weapons systems.
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