Sahra Wagenknecht has insisted on a common public position against stationing NATO missiles in Germany as a condition for joining a coalition government in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. Wagenknecht said this in an interview with former Free Democratic Party official Tijen Onaran, who runs her own podcast ("MUT-Vodcast").
Referring to an assessment by military expert, Col. Wolfgang Richter (ret.), who spoke in her parliamentary group, she said: “We have enough to react to a Russian strike,” as NATO is superior to Russia in air and naval forces.
But if the intermediate- and long-range missiles are installed, “Then we will be in the target line of Russian nuclear missiles. And regardless of whether the U.S. is planning such an attack or not—it is enough that Russia would fear it ... because then they will be the first to press the button. And then we are in the target line of Russian nuclear missiles.”
