Spiegel: Germany will not support the placement of nuclear missiles the U.S. in the European Union

Washington spoke again about the deployment of nuclear warheads in the European Union, and that his intention is able to destabilize and divide the Western world, writes.

Seriously concerned about Germany. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against being drawn into "the accelerating spiral of escalation - first words, and after the action" where he sees "old reflexes" cold war ".

"Berlin is concerned that Europe may again be in the condition of increasing confrontation of East and West, and Germany will be again area deployment [of nuclear weapons] ", - writes the magazine.

The magazine's source in the Ministry of defence of Germany suggested that a significant portion of the arms has the opportunity to be placed in Germany. In Germany and Eastern European countries-members of NATO Washington, in addition, plans to deploy tanks, guns, heavy military equipment and five thousandth of the force. So the head of the USA Barack Obama holds out hope to calm the fears of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe which, since the inception of the Ukrainian fall, again afraid of Russian aggression. But it also nourishes the hope to appease its critics in the us Congress " - indicates printed illustrated edition.

Although German Chancellor Angela Merkel and shies away from public opponents of American allies, But such a prospect is clearly not pleasant. She is faced with a dilemma: or to quarrel with the White house, or permanently branded in the eyes of compatriots " a puppet of the USA ".

Washington insists that the Russian Federation has violated the agreement on the destruction of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF). In the European Union consider that argument critically. German specialists - for example, Oliver Meier of the German Institute for international and security Affairs - have expressed serious doubt that it is justified to talk about the violation by Russia of the INF Treaty.

in February, when the agenda of the meeting of NATO defence Ministers have included the deployment of land-based missiles with wings in the EU, Germany and France voted against, says Der Spiegel.

Analysts of the German secret service BND report that " I don't see any significant change in the level of danger posed by Russia ", - writes the magazine.

on assurances of the magazine, not only Germany does not want to be in the midst of confrontation between the West and Russia. Taking into account that there are countries, strongly support such a confrontation, America's decision to place nuclear missiles in the European Union could seriously undermine the unity of the Western world, highlights Der Spiegel.


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