German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/110, p.
13436.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
From Germany should never again a war proceed: This is the
lesson of our history. With the power politics as seen in Yugoslavia and in the
German weapons deliveries to the Ukraine, this objective was and is
nevertheless irreconcilable.
Over eastern Germany presently take place the largest NATO
air maneuvers since 1945, a calculated affront and an edifying example. Defense
against air attacks on Rostock is practiced only a few minutes flight distant from the
Baltic Sea where the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines could have been
prevented. Instead of that, many here applauded.
This leads us directly to the security architecture of our
country and of Europe. We are tightly bound as a part of the NATO American
interests policy, many times a little too tightly. Since 1990, over 250
military operations have been conducted with U.S. participation. From others is
it gathered to designate this as “war”.
The migration flows from the Near East and North Africa are
proximately connected with the U.S. interventions. Failures in Afghanistan, in
Iraq and Libya, as well as the financing of color revolutions in Russia’s
vicinity, make the U.S.A. a not always unproblematic partner.
For us it is in any case time to reconsider alternatives in
Europe, not unconditionally in the EU but in a Europe of sovereign nations as we imagine it, as our party has
imagined it: Initially in parallel to NATO, later, if possible, as a sovereign
defense architecture which comes to its own decisions, yet – and this is the
problem – also can and must carry through.
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): Just like before 1945! It certainly worked out super!
The Minsk agreement certainly was good: It could have been and
needed to be carried through,
Henning Otte (CDU/CSU): That should have been said to Putin!
even if the U.S.A.’s diverging geopolitical interests, as
surely in regards the eastern expansion of NATO, do not unconditionally agree
with an all-European security interest.
Ulrich Lechte (FDP): You now become not even mediocre, Herr Gauland!
Ladies and gentlemen, a contribution to the security of
Germany is first for once the definition of German interests to be secured in each
instance. A rules-based, values-driven foreign policy is plainly too little for
that, plainly an ideologically-driven phrase, like so much of what you put out
as policy.
I am grateful.
[trans: tem]
