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FDP defense expert Anges Strack-Zimmermann: “It would be fatal to say that he won’t do that.”
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Saturday marks the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, and since then a bloody war has been raging in the small country.
Shortly before the invasion ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, many experts and politicians weighed things down: Putin would not dare to wage such a war.
The Russian president himself had repeatedly downplayed his ambitions.
The FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann was one of those who warned early on - and is now warning that nothing should be ruled out with Putin, not even an attack on Germany.
It's up to Germany to ensure "that he doesn't dare"
»It would be fatal to say that he won't do that.
You just have to trust him to do that," said Strack-Zimmermann in the podcast "Die Wochentester" of the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger".
It's up to Germany to ensure "that he doesn't dare."
Germany must strengthen NATO and prepare for war “so that it never comes.”
Regarding the accusation that anyone who supplies weapons to Ukraine is a "warmonger," the FDP's top candidate for the European elections said that if you look at the history of major wars, they were always decided militarily and not through negotiations: "It happened no one sat at the same table with Adolf Hitler.
It became militarily hopeless for the criminals.”
Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, Strack-Zimmermann has been calling for strong support for Kiev and is also calling for the delivery of heavy military equipment.
On Thursday, against the traffic light line, she approved a request from the Union faction to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to the Ukrainian army.
"I don't want to one day be accused of not having done the right thing at the right moment," says FDP MP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann to applause from the Union MPs.
mrc/AFP