Former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger says Western leaders should be making more threats and be willing to follow them through.

Former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger says Western leaders should be making more threats and be willing to follow them through.

The West should spend less time fretting about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s red lines and set its own, says veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger.

“Russia keeps saying, if you do this, if you cross this or that red line, we might escalate,” said the 78-year-old onetime chairman of the Munich Security Conference. “Why don’t we turn this thing around and say to them: ‘We have lines and if you bomb one more civilian building, then you shouldn’t be surprised if, say, we deliver Taurus cruise missiles or America allows Ukraine to strike military targets inside Russia’?”

That way the onus will be on Moscow to decide whether to cross the red lines — or face the consequences.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah let’s not do that. Only in fun stupid comments.

    Instead we should continue this whatever it is. Give Ukraine ammo, let them use it up. Give them so more.

    We’ve seen what happens when the US goes to war to defend others. We’ve seen what happens when the US replaces leaders. Etc, many scenarios have been played already. We should just let ruzzia use up all it’s might so it can become a more equal fight.

    The Ukrainians would be very proud when they finally get to live in a free country that fought against invasion and won. The ruzzians would never attack again and hopefully become productive and against war like Japan or Germany.