The Chancellor’s rejection of a delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine did not convince many in his traffic light coalition. Now Scholz is essentially upgrading his “no” to a Chancellor’s power word.
Despite all the criticism, including from his own coalition, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is sticking to his no to the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. “I am the Chancellor, and that’s why this applies,” he said on Monday in a question and answer session at a vocational school center in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg. He described the domestic political dispute over Taurus as a “strange debate about individual weapon systems.” Scholz did not comment on the intercepted conversation between high-ranking Bundeswehr officers about Taurus, but was not asked about it in the group.
The Chancellor reiterated his argument, which he first expressed last week at a dpa editor-in-chief conference and later added to in a public discussion: “It cannot be the case that you deliver a weapon system that has a very long reach and then not think about it “How control over the weapon system can take place. And if you want to have control and it only works if German soldiers are involved, that is completely out of the question.” He added: “I have made this statement very clear. I am the Chancellor and therefore this applies.”
Taurus has a range of 500 kilometers and can therefore also hit targets in Moscow from Ukraine. The Chancellor’s no to Taurus was also criticized within his own coalition. The FDP and the Greens are in favor of a delivery of Taurus, as is the Union.
Source: Stern
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