Possible misrepresentation?
Dobrindt demands an explanation from Scholz about the Taurus wiretapping scandal
March 3, 2024, 4:08 a.m
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A Russian news platform recently published a recorded conversation about the possible use of Taurus cruise missiles. The question now arises as to whether Chancellor Scholz gave the wrong reasons for his rejection of the delivery. CSU politician Dobrindt calls for clarification.
After the Russian publication of an internal conversation between senior German air force officers, CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt demanded a statement from Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “The reports are strange in two respects: on the one hand, that security-related conversations are obviously being overheard by the Russians, and on the other hand, that the Chancellor may be justifying his rejection of Taurus deliveries with a misrepresentation,” said the chairman of the CSU parliamentary group. Mirror”. “The Chancellor must explain this to the Bundestag.” He threatened: “In this situation, a committee of inquiry cannot be ruled out.”
Four officers, including Air Force Chief Ingo Gerhartz, discussed operational scenarios for the German Taurus cruise missile in a conference to prepare for a conversation with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, if it were to be delivered to Ukraine. Their conversation was published on the Russian platform “Russia Today”.
No Taurus delivery
In it they stated that rapid delivery and rapid deployment would only be possible with the participation of German soldiers and that Taurus training of Ukrainian soldiers for an operation under their sole control would take months. Scholz justified his rejection of a Taurus delivery by saying that Germany could then be drawn into the war.
“We must not be linked at any point or place to the goals that this system achieves,” he said at a German Press Agency event at the beginning of last week. At a public meeting in Dresden, he later explained that the weapon could reach Moscow if used incorrectly. Others then have to worry about where exactly what ends up. “In our case that would mean that we would have to participate in order to be able to do that. I think that is impossible.”