BERLIN, March 13. /TASS/. Ruediger Lucassen, a member of the German legislature’s defense committee from the Alternative for Germany party, said the leaked call between the country’s senior military officers, where they talked about potentially using Taurus missiles to attack the Crimean Bridge, brought to light the government’s incompetence.
"The wiretapping scandal in the Bundeswehr shows again all the amateurishness of this government," Lucassen said in the Bundestag, as the German legislature is called.
Still, he said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is right to refuse to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine. The missiles, he said, have the potential to turn the current conflict in Ukraine "into a Europe-wide war, a big war."
Lucassen censured Defense Committee Chairwoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and the Green Party lawmaker Britta Hasselmann.
"That we have women like Britta Hasselmann in the Bundestag, who warn of war fatigue, or Defense Committee Chairwoman Strack-Zimmermann, who wants to decide the outcome of the war on the battlefield, is a bad joke," he said. "These women are incapable of understanding the insanity of their absurd demands, and they are not the ones who have to send their grandchildren to the front."
Strack-Zimmermann strongly rejected the criticism. She asserted that Alternative for Germany is turning into a Russian "henchman."
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster, said on March 1 that on the very day when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed that NATO was not participating and would not participate in the Ukrainian conflict, high-ranking German officers were discussing the possibility of attacking the Crimean Bridge in a way that would not bring consequences for Germany. Simonyan published an audio recording of the discussions, which happened in a call between the officers. In the call, the officers talked about how much destruction Germany’s Taurus long-range missiles could cause to the Crimean Bridge as well as details of how to prepare such an attack. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev told TASS that the leak exposed Berlin's close involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.