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English summary of the [German] article:

The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola called on the German government to finally decide on the delivery of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, as per German weekly Der Spiegel.

Metsola noted that for Ukraine, “time matters”, and Russia is increasing the pressure — there are only more air targets flying over Ukrainian cities.

Ms. Metsola emphasized that Ukraine “cannot wait forever”, and that there is broad support in the European Parliament for such a decision by Germany.

The debate on Taurus flared up again after the United States had lifted long-range restrictions for Ukraine, and in the view of the upcoming early elections in Germany, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been rejecting these claims.

But the upcoming federal election has fuelled the debate: The vice-chancellor and Green leader Robert Habeck had stressed on German TV that he was ready for this, and parts of the opposition saw it as similar. CDU-head Friedrich Merz had already spoken out for Taurus deliveries.

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[–] jenesaisquoi 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why not both?

Actually, why not send all the things, and then some?

This war needs to end, and it needs to end with a complete defeat of putlers hateful regime.

[–] Elchi 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cause Nato has to be still able to defend itself.

[–] jenesaisquoi 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If we give Ukraine what she needs to defeat putler we'll still have like 96% left

The USA has thousands of Bradleys just sitting in a desert. The Ukraine has gotten like a hundred. They have more than a hundred patriot defense systems, Ukraine has two. The list goes on

[–] Elchi 1 points 10 hours ago

You can expect that they have also a critical purpose. Like defending against a invasion from Mexico.

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