Sahra Wagenknecht has insisted on a common public position against the stationing of NATO missiles in Germany as a condition to join a coalition government in Sachsen, Thuringia and Brandenburg. She said this in an interview with former FDP official Tijen Onaran, who runs her own podcast ("MUT-Vodcast").
Referring to an assessment by military expert and former colonel Wolfgang Richter, who spoke in her parliamentary group, she said: “We have enough to react to a Russian strike,” as NATO is superior to Russia in terms of air and naval forces.
But if the middle/long range missiles are installed, “Then we will be in the target line of Russian nuclear missiles.” “And regardless of whether the USA is planning such an attack or not—it is enough if Russia is afraid of it [...] because then they will be the first to press the button. And then we are in the target line of Russian nuclear missiles.”
