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Germany revives effort to buy US Tomahawks, FT reports
(www.reuters.com)
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What do you mean? For the next 5 years we have a skill gap regarding long range missiles, while on the other hand Russia has stationed its Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad that can easily reach Berlin.
This gap was planned to be closed with the Tomahawks that Biden promised in 2021 to station in Germany. Now that Donald Trump is pissed because Merz out called him on Iran, he took that promise back.
As I understand the article, Germany now thinks about buying the said Tomahawks on their own.
What is the right way in your opinion?
The USA used up a lot of their stockpiles in Iran. Bundeswehr wants to buy 400 missles which is more than the US produces in a year and the US did fire over 850 tomahawks on Iran:
Which means: There is no way that Trump will sell a yearly production run of Tomahawks to Germany before the US stockpiles are refilled. And that means that the Bundeswehr will not be getting their tomahawks in the next 5 years.
Yeah exactly the skill gap is the problem. One that applies for all of Europe. There are simply no other medium range conventional missiles in the world. Russia and the USA contractually agreed to not invent any - until Russia did and broke the treaty.
Sorry, I was too vague with my comment. The truth is that I don't know what the right way is, but as the article says, Germany still needs the US to agree to let them buy the missiles. Any time I see a European diplomat visiting the White House to negotiate with the US, I think "What are we giving up next?" because I don't really trust them to keep their word on any deal.
Once again, I really do understand that Germany needs to improve its defences, but I don't think this will go down as their government thinks it will.