French President Emmanuel Macron does not want to rule out anything in the fight against Putin. Chancellor Olaf Scholz clearly rejects German ground troops in Ukraine. Citizens have a clear opinion on this.
Unlike Germany, France has so far held back on supplying ammunition to Ukraine. Then President Emmanuel Macron surprised everyone last week by saying that the deployment of Western ground troops in Ukraine against Russia was not ruled out. Military experts praised the approach of keeping the attacker Putin in the dark about a possible escalation by NATO. In strategists’ jargon, this is called “ambiguity.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) apparently doesn’t think much of such finesse: He publicly spoke out clearly against sending ground troops.
East Germans particularly strong against NATO ground troops in Ukraine
76 percent of Germans support the federal government’s clear rejection of ground troops, according to a Forsa survey commissioned by star resulted. 18 percent do not think it is right to exclude the use of NATO ground troops in the war between Ukraine and Russia. At 84 percent, support for Scholz’s position is particularly high in East Germany, where there are three state elections this year. Critics therefore accused the SPD politician of saying that the cancellation was also an election campaign maneuver.
Opinions actually differ little between the political camps. It’s hardly surprising that 83 percent of SPD voters clearly support Scholz’s position. At 90 percent, there is only even more support among AfD supporters. Strikingly, approval is lowest among Green Party voters: 68 percent of them think the clear rejection of ground troops is right, but at least 28 percent think it is wrong.
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The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa for stern and RTL Deutschland on February 29 and March 1, 2024. Database: 1006 respondents. Statistical margin of error: +/- 3 percentage points
Source: Stern
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