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In the Ukraine war, military expert Carlo Masala called on the federal government not to make any concessions to Russia for the resumption of gas supplies.
The military expert Carlo Masala has called on the federal government not to make any concessions to Russia for the resumption of gas supplies. Masala says on Friday in star– “Ukraine – the situation”: “If we start easing sanctions on gas supplies now, then we can stop supporting Ukraine anyway.” Then the whole previous policy no longer makes sense. He “would recommend to the federal government that it not back down a millimeter”says the politics professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
Masala points out that there are already enough compromises in the “field of nuclear blackmail” with which he refers in particular to the delivery of aircraft and main battle tanks of western design to Ukraine. If the West now gave in to demands to relax sanctions in return for gas supplies, then it would be “blackmailable on two fronts”.
Masla: Tensions in the traffic light will increase as the Ukraine war progresses
Masala expects tensions within the traffic light coalition to increase the longer the war lasts. When more and more people in Germany are hit hard and the social mood changes “these conflicts will become much more apparent”. From the beginning it was evident that “the Greens and significant parts of the FDP plead for a much harder course than the Federal Chancellor and the SPD”. On the coalition one could “very difficult time” get.
At the same time, Masala makes it clear that a country of the size and importance of Russia cannot be completely isolated. Limited cooperation is required despite the war. “If you have an interest in preventing the outbreak of famine, you have to find a way with the Russian Federation to get the grain out of Ukraine”, he says. It also makes sense to continue to cooperate with Russia to prevent the construction of an Iranian nuclear bomb. There are areas in which compromises with Russia must be sought, even if this seems cynical and amoral at first glance.
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dr Carlo Masala is Professor of International Politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
Source: Stern
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