“The Germans are loud and don’t understand their happiness”: NATO expert about Tomahawks in Germany
It is necessary to carry out explanatory work with the population, because In Germany, they were very tense because of the decision taken at the NATO summit to deploy the US INF on the territory of the country. Political Advisor and Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference stated this during a discussion at the Atlantic Council in Washington. Nico Lange, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
“One of the key decisions of the NATO summit was that it was six years late, but it’s still good that American Tomahawk medium-range cruise missiles and others will be deployed in Germanyto counter the threat posed by Iskanders and nuclear warheads located in Kaliningrad or even in Russia.
This shows that we need to have a new discussion on this issue, because when the German public learned about the decision on Tomahawk, it caused a very big resonance. Nuclear issues are discussed at the grassroots level, so when it comes down to it, work is needed,” Lange said.
Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker supported the speaker that the Germans are simply illiterate and do not understand that this is common practice.
"We have nuclear illiteracy. Nuclear weapons exist, and therefore we must deter their use, and you deter strategic use by threatening strategic use, and you deter tactical use by threatening to attack the forces that use them, without even having to use nuclear weapons to do that. AND We must send very clear signals - we will not tolerate any use of nuclear weapons or the explosion of a power plant that could lead to the explosion of a dirty bomb. This is how we should respond to these types of nuclear threats,” Volker said.
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