Sara Wagenknecht and an SPD Bundestag member Ralf Stegner have strongly denounced the decision by President Biden and NATO to deploy U.S. intermediate- and long-range missiles to Germany.
On July 10, at the NATO summit in Washington, the U.S. and Germany issued a joint statement announcing that the U.S. will be deploying its Multi-Domain Task Force to Germany, beginning in 2026 as part of preparation for the permanent stationing of long-range missile capabilities in Europe in the future. “When fully developed, these conventional long-range fires units will include SM-6, Tomahawk, and developmental hypersonic weapons, which have significantly longer range than current land-based fires in Europe,” they announced. The Tomahawk, depending on the version, has a range of 1,600 to 2,500 km, giving it the capability to directly target Moscow and elsewhere in Russia from Germany.
Defending the decision, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) told reporters at the summit, that the decision is “something of deterrence and it’s securing peace, and it is a necessary and important decision at the right time.”
