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A CLAIM by Germany’s foreign minister that her country is fighting “a war with Russia” has earned her a sharp rebuke from within the government coalition.
Annalena Baerbock was responding to criticism at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg that Germany had not acted fast enough to send tanks to Ukraine.
She said: “Yes, we have to do more to defend Ukraine. Yes, we have to do more also on tanks… But the most important and the crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe, because we are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other.”
Her country’s Ministry of Justice was quick to dismiss the comment, saying: “Under international law, it is clear that anyone who supports a country in defending itself does not become a warring party.
“Ukraine has the right to self-defence against the Russian war of aggression. Germany does not become a warring party even with the supply of heavy weapons.”
US peace campaigner Ajamu Baraka tweeted that Ms Baerbock had “said in public what wasn’t supposed to be said … that the US-EU-Nato axis of domination is waging war against Russia.”
