In an interview with Democracy Now, Sevim Dagdelen, Linke party member in the Bundestag, denounced the government’s decision to send battle tanks to Ukraine: “This was a historic wrong decision. And it comes only because of the pressure, the heavy pressure, from the United States Biden administration, we have to say. Several months ago, Chancellor Scholz, in the German parliament, in the Foreign Affairs Committee, said it was a red line. It’s a line of escalation, sending battle tanks from Germany to Ukraine. That would cross a red line. But the pressure now was too heavy, too strong from the Biden administration to send Germany to the frontline of this war.”
Notably, he added: “And it was the pressure of the [German] coalition partners, the Greens and the Liberals — they are actually the neocons in this coalition in Germany. They officially said that they would breach the coalition if these battle tanks, Leopard 2, wouldn’t be sent by Chancellor Scholz to Ukraine. That was the problem.”
Dagdelen correctly points out that this decision to send tanks to Ukraine means that “Germany and Russia, for good, have no relations at all.” Digging deeper, he explained that, in books by geopolitician Zbigniew Brzezinski and other U.S. think tankers, “it was always an aim by the United States elites to destroy the relationship between Germany and Russia.”
