Alice Weidel, the head of the surging far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) accused Merz’s conservatives of war-mongering for even considering the idea of ground troops, slamming it as “dangerous and irresponsible”.
Even Merz’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned sending troops to Ukraine “would probably overwhelm us”.
There is unease in Germany over troop deployments given its Nazi past and more recent deployments to Afghanistan and Mali that were widely seen as failures. There is also a backlash against spending billions of euros on military aid for Ukraine when Germany’s own economy is struggling.
After 2½ years of fighting Russia hasn’t even taken all of the Donbas yet, never mind Ukraine. They couldn’t continue on invading Europe even if they wanted to, which they don’t.
This kind of confusion is what happens when you misunderstand why the war started in the first place. Previously.
Fuck off Nazi scum
If Russia didn’t want the whole of Ukraine, why did they try to march straight to Kyiv at the very beginning of their violent and illegal invasion? How did your “3 day special operation” go, Nazi fuck?
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