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SPD: "Germany will not participate in a US mission" in the Gulf; "a participation is out of the question".
@n_roettgen, chairman of FA Committee: "A joint mission with the US is currently impossible because the Europeans have a fundamentally different approach to Iran."
@n_roettgen, chairman of FA Committee: "A joint mission with the US is currently impossible because the Europeans have a fundamentally different approach to Iran."
@n_roettgen Germany doesn't want to be part of a US "maximum pressure campaign" against Iran.
And yet Germany has not found a convincing response to the crucial question: Is the country ready to invest in the protection of the freedom of the seas against state piracy?
And yet Germany has not found a convincing response to the crucial question: Is the country ready to invest in the protection of the freedom of the seas against state piracy?
@n_roettgen Especially if France joins the UK-US mission, Germany will once more look like a free rider -- profiting from security provided by others without sufficiently contributing to it.
