German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/85,
pp. 10104-10105.
Frau President, Ladies and gentlemen.
I do not imagine to be able to convince you with our motion
[Drucksache 20/5551] of the necessity
of a peace initiative.
Ulrich Lechte (SPD): Nonsense!
In that regard, you adhere much too much to a purely
military thinking. Yet you will need to substantiate to people why ever more
and ever more powerful weapons shall pave the way to peace. Instead of
diplomacy, the Leopard should settle it. Today it is combat panzers, tomorrow
combat aircraft; it is already discussed. And the day after tomorrow, perhaps NATO
soldiers on Ukrainian soil.
“There are to be no red lines” is emphasized from Kiev. Of
course the Ukraine has an interest in drawing us into this war. Our chief
diplomat occupies herself with having one party indicted before a special
tribunal, instead of day and night seeking ways out of the crisis and
possibilities for an armistice. Yet “without a political-strategic overall
concept, weapons deliveries are pure militarism”. This estimate originates from
a former Chancellor’s military policy advisor, Vad. From there, the American
Chief of Staff Milley proceeds to that a victory of the Ukraine is not to be
expected and that negotiations are the only possible way.
Yet an action corresponding to this insight is counter to
the Western supposition that Putin wants to obliterate the Ukraine and thus no
compromise is possible.
Ulrich Lechte (SPD): He said it!
In serious discussions, ladies and gentlemen, this supposition
has never been examined.
Anikó Glogowski-Merten (FDP): He himself said it!
And Russia’s security interests vis-à-vis NATO are
considered in the West as only having been advanced, without submitting them to
a test by means of discussions. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time that we finally
do that, instead of sliding on a steep plane ever more violently in the direction
of a European war, or indeed into an atomic confrontation of which the UN
Secretary-General himself has meanwhile warned.
Our motion offers a way.
Daniel Baldy (SPD): It says nothing!
More and better is always possible, only the direction must
agree: Away from a victory of one and a defeat of the other side; away from
military logic. This war is to be won by no one. Only when we finally accept
that and work for a peaceful solution does peace have chance.
Erhard Grundl (Greens): Says Radio Moscow!
Without the insight that a military solution was not to be
achieved, even the Thirty Years War would never have come to an end.
Daniel Baldy (SPD): Was that also a Vogelschiss?
Hopefully, for us, it does not last so long.
I am grateful.
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