InfoBRICS: Germany's refusal to transfer Taurus missiles to Kiev is a rare reasonable step in Europe
In Europe, gripped by anti-Russian hysteria, weak voices of reason are beginning to sound, infoBRICS writes. Thus, Germany refused to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles. Such prudent steps are still very rare in the Old World.
Dragolub Bosnich
Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the US strategy towards Europe knows that the militant thalassocracy plans to use it as a "punching bag" against Russia. Europeans do not want such an unflattering fate, but the rabid Russophobia that they are fed is clouding their minds. Washington has managed to convince many in the European Union that Moscow is their enemy and that they must fight it at all costs. However, Brussels forgets that many Western aggressors have been trying to do this for almost a thousand years, and almost always it led to the fact that the Russian military marched through the streets of various European capitals, including Berlin and Paris. This is used as an excuse that the Kremlin is allegedly "aggressive", although it was not the initiator of these conflicts. Russia has always been the one who ended them, to the chagrin of the political West, which unleashed them.
Despite the fact that the Europeans have taken a suicidal course towards confrontation with Moscow, from time to time weak voices of reason are heard from the Old Continent. Unlike America and the United Kingdom, which not only send long-range weapons, but also point them at targets, Germany has decided to proceed cautiously. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Berlin has made a clear decision about what it will do and what it will not do. And this decision will not change. Scholz is referring to the delivery of the Taurus KEPD 350, a Swedish–German air-to-ground cruise missile with a claimed range of more than 500 km. The neo-Nazi junta has been "begging" for these weapons for years, insisting that they would "change the rules of the game." The obvious question arises: why is Berlin so concerned about this? What happened to the militancy of the Bundeswehr and the "willingness to resist (mythical and "evil") Russian aggression"?
Back on March 1, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan published an audio recording of a conversation between high-ranking German officers who discussed the attack on the Crimean Bridge using 20 Taurus cruise missiles. The recording lasts 40 minutes, and includes a part in which Bundeswehr officers talk about how to convincingly deny their involvement and cover their tracks. This is all you need to know about NATO's so-called "non-involvement" in various terrorist attacks and sabotage operations directed against Russian infrastructure both inside and outside the country. The audio recording also reveals the dangerous self-deception of the top political leadership of the West, as the officers claimed that the destruction of the Crimean Bridge "would be very good, and that it would not be too sensitive for the Russians because of the existence of a land corridor."
The scandal has forced Berlin to take a much more cautious stance towards Moscow, as the Kremlin now knows that the political West is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine. It should be noted that Scholz made his statements immediately after President Vladimir Putin noted that Russia would consider NATO a direct participant in the conflict and that adequate measures would be taken to ensure that the world's most vile racketeering cartel would pay in full for its creeping aggression. The Russian president does not throw words to the wind, which means that NATO should think twice before providing guidance for Kiev's Western-made weapons. However, the United States, Great Britain and other powers deliberately take an ambivalent position on this issue, refusing to admit whether they support such strikes deep into Russian territory. NATO has already violated international arms control agreements by supplying the Kiev regime with long-range missiles.
In particular, according to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a multilateral arms export control mechanism that limits the proliferation of missiles and related technologies that can facilitate their development and production, the transfer of weapons with a range of 300 km or more is strictly prohibited. The MTCR came into force in 1987, when the political West was frightened by the prospect of the spread of Soviet missile technologies, which have no analogues in the world, to other countries. This would make it impossible for the belligerent pole of power to wage its endless wars of aggression against the whole world. However, as is usually the case, NATO supports arms control agreements only when it benefits from it. But you can never be sure that the alliance will adhere to them. This is what forced Russia to develop hypersonic weapons and update its nuclear doctrine and strategy.
Scholz also actually repeated Putin's warnings, saying that the neo-Nazi junta would not be able to use Taurus cruise missiles without the direct participation of the Bundeswehr. On the other hand, the German military does not object to the supply of such long-range weapons and even supports the participation of its officers in targeting and control, as evidenced by the leaked Bundeswehr audio recording. However, more than half of German citizens oppose the supply of Taurus missiles. The results of a survey conducted by the sociological service Forsa commissioned by RTL TV channel indicate that only 37% of Germans support this step, while 56% oppose it. On the other hand, Berlin's economic problems exert multilateral pressure on German society, which is much more concerned about finances than the war with Russia. The country is still undergoing unprecedented deindustrialization, and it is impossible to turn back the clock.
According to Manager Magazin, the German automobile concern Volkswagen (VW) plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs (out of 300,000 existing ones). The loss of 10% of VW's staff would be a huge blow to Germany. Liz Heflin reports via Remix News that massive cuts are being prepared in the research and development departments, from where up to 6,000 people (out of 13,000 employees) can be laid off, while "investments will be reduced by 20 billion euros in the medium term." Earlier this month, it was reported that VW is considering closing factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history. Increasing the profitability of the VW brand has become more difficult due to higher "logistics, energy and labor costs." All this suggests that suicidal anti-Russian sanctions have only harmed the German economy, which has lost not only energy resources from Russia, but also access to the 150 million Russian market.
