You didn’t support Trump sending Javelins to Ukraine. You didn’t support Trump’s bolstering Poland and the Baltics with weapons and NATO troops.
NS2 is ready for operations and has not been approved yet, that is correct. However, if Russia invades, the Germans have stated unequivocally, that they will not use it.
It’s turning out to be great leverage against Russia.
The US/NATO/EU have all made concrete statements that they will not intervene militarily. That’s Russian propaganda that the West would send troops.
They will punish Russia, where it hurts, in their economy.
More on the Normandy format negotiations:
(Same link as before to Handelsblatt, my translation from the German):
(German) Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will travel to Kiev at the beginning of February in view of the tense situation in the Ukraine conflict. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he would travel to Ukraine with Baerbock on February 7 and 8. The Federal Foreign Office in Berlin confirmed that Baerbock would travel to Kiev “soon”, but did not give an exact date. “We are continuing our efforts in N4 format for de-escalation,” Baerbock wrote on Twitter. The N4 format refers to the consultations of Russia and Ukraine mediated by Germany and France, also known as the Normandy format.
In the Normandy format, the tense situation was last discussed at consultant level on Wednesday. However, the more than eight-hour talks remained without concrete results. A desired consolidation of the ceasefire was emphasized. In addition, a follow-up meeting in Berlin was agreed.