Germany’s Linke party has transformed from an anti-NATO party to one supporting the western alliance against Russia. In an interview during the past days, Linke party leader Jan van Aken has called for halting “Putin’s war machine” by tougher sanctions hitting the Russian economy.
After endorsing Russia sanctions, van Aken was asked on the Lanz TV show Thursday night about the attacks on Russian strategic bomber airfields—whether that was an ingenious operation, or poor Putin’s provocation?
Van Aken: Well, it’s a brilliant operation. Well, I’m against all this military stuff, but [...] I think it’s great, so no one got hurt and the f*ing bombers are gone.”
Van Aken’s former party colleague Wagenknecht, having established her own party out of open dissent with the Linke leadership, commented on X: “With respect: how stupid can you be? An attack on the strategic bomber fleet of a nuclear power is not ‘disarmament', but playing with fire, which could result in an enormous escalation. This will certainly not bring us any closer to a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine. But the sanctions fanatic probably doesn’t care about the latter anyway.”
