The powerful media man and multimillionaire Matthias Döpfner threw the bat in the henhouse yesterday morning. NATO members must ‘act now’, says the boss of Axel Springer publishing house in an editorial in Bild, the largest newspaper in Europe. “They must now move their troops and weapons where our values and future are neither defended. Possibly without NATO.”
Military intervention
With these heavy words, Döpfner, who has great influence in Germany, pleads for military intervention by the Bundeswehr, the largest EU army. “France, England, Germany and America, as an alliance of freedom, must end Putin’s murderous actions in Kiev.”
The dilemma between ‘threat of World War III and capitulation’ has also gripped the CDU of former Chancellor Merkel. New parliamentary and party chairman Friedrich Merz said NATO could intervene in Ukraine if nuclear safety was at stake. “There may be a situation where NATO also has to decide to stop Putin,” Merz told NDR. He spoke of attacks on the reactor blocks of a nuclear power plant, such as at Zaporizhzhya on Thursday. “Then we will be threatened by the consequences of the war.”
Complicit
The right-wing AfD party, which, like its Western European partners, has slammed the Kremlin’s door for years and sent “independent observers” to Crimea, claims NATO is complicit in the war in Ukraine. “The escalation is also a result of the estrangement between NATO and Russia.”