However, such a request has brought great internal and external pressure to Germany, which has always been cautious about assisting Ukraine. German Defense Minister Lambrecht plans to resign. What should Scholz do as a prime minister of a country?
German Defense Minister Lambrecht
external pressure
Although Ukraine has been demanding more advanced weapons, Germany has been reluctant to get involved in a deeper degree. First, Germany suffered huge losses in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The original cheap energy has turned into sky-high energy, and the industrial losses and aid consumption have far exceeded the expectations of the German government. For Germany, this is not worth the loss. Second, there is no precedent for other countries to help more advanced chariots, and Germany does not want to be this early bird.
However, France, which had always said that it would fight against American hegemony, betrayed this alliance and took the lead in providing Ukraine with AMX- 10RC armored fighting vehicles called "light tanks", which "broke" the "taboo" of western tanks transporting to Ukraine, cut off Germany's back road and doubled the pressure on Germany.
In addition to the French government's increased pressure on Germany, Poland also jointly delivered Leopard tanks to Ukraine, while Britain planned to provide 10 Challenger 2 tanks, which were fueled by Britain, France and Poland and turned Germany away. Germany has announced the delivery of 40 "weasel" infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, but it has not yet decided whether to provide "Leopard 2" main battle tanks.
equipment
Recently, it was reported that the United States would withdraw a Patriot missile defense system deployed in Slovakia. It was speculated that this might be one of the systems sent to Ukraine, but Slovakia did not respond to this news.
Ironically, despite the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Germany not only suffered losses, but also suffered undue pressure.
German Federal Chancellor Angela Scholz said in an interview that she didn't want to make a hasty decision on supplying Ukrainian main battle tanks under external pressure. Regarding the Ukrainian request, Scholz reiterated that Germany has provided a lot of effective assistance, but "NATO is not a party to the war, and this state must be maintained."
The German government also stressed that if other NATO members plan to transport German-made tanks to Ukraine, they need permission from Germany.
internal pressure
However, despite Schultz's remarks, the German federal government is not a government that Schultz can completely decide. There are obviously different opinions among the three parties on the traffic lights, while Richard Baker, the vice president of Germany, holds a completely different attitude-Germany does not rule out further actions-and delivers the "Leopard" main battle tank.
Countries supporting Ukraine will meet in Ramstein on June 5438+ 10/9. Before that, Berlin must make a choice. Scholz's caution and Chabek's radicalism make it urgent for a political party in the German federal government to make concessions.
Faced with this situation, German Defense Minister Lambrecht is also a member of Schultz's Social Democratic Party. He intends to resign next week and has informed Schultz.
Scholz data map
Lambrecht's resignation means Scholz's cabinet is unstable. In fact, in the last year, Scholz's public opinion support rate dropped by 24 percentage points, most of which was due to a series of negative effects brought about by German intervention in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
It turned out that after the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Scholz was strongly aware of how bad it was to rely too much on the United States, and prepared a special military budget of more than 654.38+00 billion euros, intending to strengthen the construction of the Federal Defence Force. However, with the intensification of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the number of German citizens seeking to withdraw from the National Defence Force has doubled.
Now, Scholz is in a dilemma, and it seems difficult to have enough courage to cope with internal and external pressures. To make matters worse, for the German people, Scholz was not the first choice, and Merkel, who had withstood the pressure, was now rejected.
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Media: Ukraine threatened Germany's refusal to cease fire and hit the Russian army's "red-eye killing".
After several waves of heavy blows to the Russian army, Ukraine's momentum has soared recently, and its speech is particularly ugly. Everyone dares to say anything except the one who delivered the weapon to the door.
The threat of "within reach"
Although Germany ranks among the top countries in aiding Ukraine, it has been humiliated by Ukraine many times. Even though it recently announced that it would produce RCH- 155 howitzers for Ukraine as aid, it was still threatened. Believe it or not, let Germany face the war.
Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Committee, warned Germany that if Germany could not provide Ukraine with tanks, the Germans would soon have to use them to defend the capital Berlin from Russian attacks.
Ukraine's purpose is simple. It wants the German Leopard -2 main battle tank.
But for Germany, first of all, Germany is the country that is the least willing to conflict between Russia and Ukraine because of its interests, and it is not willing to get involved at all; Secondly, Germany lost a lot in this incident, both energy and economy were damaged, and its contribution was not flattering; The key point is that Ukraine has stretched its hand too long now and made up its mind to go to the "Leopard" -2 main battle tank. No other country has provided similar weapons. Germany should not be an early bird. If it is given this time, what will Ukraine ask for next time?
Cease fire? It is impossible to stop.
Patriarch kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church called on all parties to the conflict to cease fire during the Orthodox Christmas on June+10/October 7, 5438. Putin immediately announced a temporary ceasefire from 6: 00/2 Moscow time to 7: 00 Moscow time.
Russian Orthodox Patriarch kirill
However, after a wave of raids on New Year's Eve, the Ukrainian army claimed that it had hit the Russian army with 400 deaths and 300 injuries, and the momentum was in full swing. Obviously, it is very dissatisfied with Russia's ceasefire proposal. Zelensky believes that this is the Russian use of Christmas as a "cover" to stop the advance of the Ukrainian army and transport equipment, ammunition and mobilized soldiers to the vicinity of the position.
Podolyak, an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, posted on social media that a "temporary truce" would be possible only if Russian troops left Ukrainian territory.
Therefore, Uzbekistan shouted to Russia: "Either your soldiers get out or we drive them away."
Zelensky once called for negotiations, refused to negotiate and asked for negotiations. Now the situation is somewhat reversed, and Ukraine actually rejected Putin's ceasefire proposal. Zelensky wants to open the situation at all costs while its western allies are still willing to support it. It can be said that Ukraine has now killed its eyes.
Imperial salvation?
In order to win, Alexei Liesto, an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, even publicly stated that Ukraine could consider becoming a monarchy, saying that this was "the only way to defeat everything from Moscow".
One thing that Zelensky praised for some people in the West is that he was elected president. As an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, Risto's public remarks are obviously contrary to the "democratic concept" of the EU and NATO. To some extent, we can see the political confusion and charm of the Kiev government.
In order to support this argument of "saving the country by monarchy", the consultants in the office of the President of Ukraine also took Britain as an example. "Britain is also a monarchy, isn't it the worst country in the world?"
In fact, the situation in Britain is not as good as before, and it is not as good as before. In order to continue to rely on the ranks of "great powers", Britain still strongly supports Ukraine despite its own difficulties, just to leverage the United States to maintain its sense of existence.
After punching Germany, Ukraine also punched Britain. There was a short victory on the battlefield, but the political strategy exposed the madness of the Kiev government.