Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9240435
While France and Britain have passed on their own long-range SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, Chancellor Scholz (SPD, S&D) has mystified allies with his persistent reluctance to deliver equivalent German Taurus missiles.
Long-range weapons to strike behind enemy lines are among the most urgently needed weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend.
When asked about the chancellors position on Taurus systems in a press conference on wednesday, his speaker Hebestreit proceeded to not answer the question, while claiming multiple times he had already answered it.
When journalists asked again he insulted them, saying that his answers would be clear and that this would be 9th grade language comprehension. When journalists continued to ask he insulted them again saying, “i was unjust to the 9th graders, maybe this is 11th grade language comprehension.”
German - Video of the press conference
Did everyone decide to copy Trumps playbook? Can we have the adults back in the room please?
Why not just answer the question?
Sounds like he really didn’t want to answer. But why? Missiles already approved? Completely off the table? Why react emotionally?
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