The New York Times reported that Chancellor Schultz’s pacifism that “peace cannot be achieved through military force” played a role in the “rejection of German tanks’ aid to Ukraine.”
The Germans are overwhelmingly supporting Ukraine in the fight, but their reluctance to send tanks "reflects the deep ambivalence of a country with a catastrophic history of aggression during World War II and the risk of being a military leader and confronting Russia directly." are deeply divided about it,” the New York Times diagnosed.
German opinion polls show that half of Germans do not want to send tanks, and Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats, who lead the current government, and Schultz himself, in the late 1980s, expressed the conviction that "peace cannot be achieved by military means". is being led by
Both the Social Democrats and the Greens, the largest members of Germany's governing coalition, have strong pacifist wings that party leaders like Scholz cannot ignore, and Scholz has shown that the Greens and even the pacifist wings of the Social Democrats have formed a five-party coalition rather than a three-party coalition. , and the Social Democratic Party has many voters in former East Germany that are more sympathetic to Russia, the NYT said on the 22nd.
After the defeat of Nazism, Germany is a political system dedicated to self-consciously promoting 'peace' and unifying the European and transatlantic security order synonymous with consensus, with cheap Russian energy and apolitical trade with Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China. Post-war economic construction and trade were the cradle of the post-war support economy for economic construction and mitigation of authoritarian regimes.
“Russia’s war in Ukraine is now forcing Germany to rethink decades-old ideas about its position in Europe, its relationship with Russia and the use of military force,” the NYT said. It was a psychological shock as much as a political one, and it undermined many assumptions about Russia.”
Germans, in part, are concerned that escalating the war with Western tanks will increase killings without fundamentally changing the course of the war, the New York Times reported, adding that Scholz is trying to entice domestic voters despite the demands of NATO allies, telling the German public that Russia will agree to send tanks if you convince them that it will actually bring peace closer by pushing them into negotiations.
Steven E. Sokol, president of the American-German Council, said, "The German objection here can be summed up in one word, and that is 'history'." "We have a special sensitivity to deliver weapons in areas where German weapons have been used to kill millions. People don't want German weapons on the front lines to be used to kill people in those areas," he told the NYT.
"Germany's resistance to going it alone now risks isolating it," said Johann Wadeful, vice-chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, an opposition party that favors sending tanks. and Germany's non-delivery is actually 'going alone'."
The NYT said, "Russia cannot blame Berlin, as this is the main explanation for Schulz's desire to provide tanks only if the US also provides them." "We want to avoid Germany's decision to approve being singled out by a nuclear-armed Russia, a Russia that many Germans want to have decent relations with after the inevitable end of this conflict."
The US announced on the 19th that it would provide $2.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including 90 Stryker armored vehicles and 59 Bradley combat armored vehicles, but no tanks.
U.S. aid includes eight Avenger air defense systems equipped with Stinger surface-to-air missiles and ammunition for the advanced surface-to-air air defense missile system NASAMS, but not the tanks requested by Ukraine.
On the 19th, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed the issue of tank support to Ukraine with new German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in Berlin, but failed to reach an agreement.
On the other hand, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine announced on the 20th that the Ukrainian army will train the operation of the Leopard 2 tank in Poland.
Minister Reznikov made this remark to Voice of America (VOA) after attending a meeting of defense ministers from 50 countries, including the United States and Germany, held at the Ramstein military base in Germany on the 19th.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who were present at the meeting, said, “For now, Germany will not provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine.”
US Republican Michael McCall, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on ABC on the 22nd, “Sending one M1 Abrams tank to Ukraine will be enough to get European allies to support the tank,” and asked the Biden Democratic administration to support the Abrams tank. did.
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called on the Biden administration and the German government in a statement to support tanks in Ukraine, saying, "Putin is tired of showing off trying to redraw the map of Europe by force. The world order is at stake."
The Republican Party's strength-based peace policy was announced by former President Trump from his election pledges on foreign policy, and was coordinated in the Moon Jae-in regime.
President Yoon Seok-yeol relies on diplomacy based on the strength of the Republican Party in his campaign promises and policies. <President Moon's strength-based peace to 'dispatch' USFK to the Taiwan Strait, May 21, 2021. Inter-Korean System Confrontation: Destroying the Socialist Economy with ‘Free Democracy for the North Korean People’, see July 24, 2022>
The NYT said on December 21, “Ahead of winter, Russia has changed its strategy with air strikes on Ukraine’s power and other infrastructure and reinforced its defensive line by installing long multiple trenches on the front line.” After that, both sides began preparing for a long-term war,” he reported, saying that the situation of continuous artillery confrontation was fixated.
<Ukrainian War “Winter Large-scale 155mm Artillery Battle” Controversy over Korea’s “Cannonballs”, see November 11, 2022>
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