German Lawmakers Break Ranks, Demand Halt To Weapons For Ukraine Amid "Escalation Spiral"

6 million Germans may freeze to death this winter.

(Germany used to get its gas and oil from Russia. Until. Germany started sending weapons to Ukraine, weapons that kill Russians.)

German Lawmakers Break Ranks, Demand Halt To Weapons For Ukraine Amid "Escalation Spiral"

BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, AUG 27, 2022 - 08:45 AM

A group of Left-SPD lawmakers have had enough of the unprecedented Ukraine arms shipments following on the heels of Berlin boosting its military budget by €100 billion. They've sent a letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the title, "The weapons must be silent!"

Instead of pumping weapons into a hot conflict with a nuclear-armed superpower, the group within Scholz's own party are demanding the pursuit of a diplomatic negotiations, pushing the Ukrainians to the peace talks table. "The escalation spiral must be stopped," letter states, urging a "modus vivendi" until a final settlement can be found.

As predicted, Europeans weary of being told to make "sacrifices" in what for them is a somewhat distant conflict on the continent's eastern periphery will reach a point of saying enough... for some within Scholz previously pacifist Social Democratic Party, that time is now. Yet critics of the letter are already calling it "capitulation" and other denunciations which come close to essentially saying the signatories are 'traitors' to the German and European cause while standing up to Russian aggression. 

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As spelled out in the letter, the lawmakers not only warn of a German economy plunged into recession and an energy emergency which will hit the common people and the poor especially hard - all for supporting one side of a war that will "have no military victors" - but it could eventually lead to runaway escalation with a nuclear-armed power.

(If anyone knows how to start world wars, its Germany …… and third times not always the charm.)

"With every delivery of weapons, it is important to carefully weigh up and consider where the ‘red line’ lies, which could be perceived as entering the war and provoke corresponding reactions," the SDP lawmakers wrote. 

"NATO or individual Western states must not be part of the war because this will inevitably extend the war to a third party - possibly atomic - world war."

And addressing the energy crisis and impact on German citizens at home, they wrote: