Some folks have suggested here in Germany over the past week....that Putin made a direct person-to-person comment to Chancellor Scholz.....that nuclear warfare is very close if Germany provides any more weapons to the Ukraine.
Truth to the story? So far.....none.
This goes to limited comments that Scholz made on Tuesday, and people are now thinking that something was said by Putin which Scholz can't discuss in public (N-24 suggests that today).
My take? There is an extreme fear existing in Germany that nuclear weapons could be the next step. A lot of the older generation remember the 1960s and 1970s. If you took the whole Bundestag group (700 of them).....I would imagine that half would readily admit that you can't go past a certain point, or nuke war is a real possibility.
If some threat was made like this? Then the whole goal of the SPD Party for sixty-plus years....the Ostpolitik scheme....has been a total blunder and the relationship of Russia to Germany.....is totally finished. It'll never work again.
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