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.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can take your strawman and stick it. In the mean time the whole middle east has been building to this and egged on by people like you we will see it get a lot worse.

    I’ll bet all those Palestinians are very comforted by knowing people like you have their backs. “No no… you need to stay in your refugee camps because else the evil Jews won”… 70 years down and people like you helped 300k people kicked from their lands back then, become 5 million people in perpetual misery… But you can rest smuggly that you took the moral high ground… but then it does not cost you anything… so there.