Thread by @GresselGustav

1/6🤦🏻‍♂️If true (still hop it's not) this would again wreck 🇩🇪 reputation for a domestic publicity stunt.
1️⃣🇷🇺 doesn't want to talk to 🇩🇪, their demands are addressed to 🇺🇸.
2️⃣ to change this 🇪🇺 would have to be structurally capable to act in the fields ... bild.de/bild-plus/poli…

2/6 ... 🇷🇺 is interested in dealing with like military support to 🇺🇦, strategic armaments, force posture in Europe. In all of this the #SPD is actually blocking 🇩🇪 from becoming an actor...
3️⃣ #Putin is not interested in Resets. He demands results, the ones 🇩🇪 can't deliver.

3/6 4️⃣ Unilateral outreach only undermines cohesion in 🇪🇺, especially if - as in this case - the exact objective of discussion is kept secret. See for corresponding attempts in the past. None of which produced results other than alienating allies in Brussels.

4/6 5️⃣ This would further undermine trust in 🇩🇪 which already is very low because of #NS2. It would end any benevolence towards the new government and deepen trenches.
6️⃣ If this is all 🇩🇪 has to offer on substance, it becomes abundant and useless to talk about #ESDP, #PESCO, ...

5/6 ... #strategicautonomy whatsoever for half of 🇪🇺. A 🇩🇪 being a risk instead of an asset to the security of its neighbours would need to be contained. Probably more countries would join in that effort (for economic reasons as well) than just the Eastern flank.

6/6 So I sincerely hope @OlafScholz makes a quick end to all 🇩🇪 #Reset plans wherever or by whomever they are cooked up. There is nothing good to be done here, only harm.