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A debate has erupted in Germany over German participation in security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement.
Following the European summit with President Donald Trump at the White House, where there was also talk of security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement, a debate has erupted over whether or not to send German soldiers to Ukraine.
US Vice President JD Vance made it clear on Fox News that Europe must bear the "greatest burden of security guarantees." The US will help if necessary to end the war and killings, but the US President expects Europe to play the lead role in this.
For German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, these guarantees require a "long and intensive discussion." But he does not deny, as he emphasized after the summit in Washington at a press conference, that "it is clear to me" that "we as the Federal Republic of Germany have a great interest and a great responsibility to participate."
Pros and cons
This debate is dividing Germans. For the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, "there should be no issue with having German soldiers in Ukraine," adding that Germany cannot guarantee Ukraine's security. "The Bundeswehr lacks the conditions for this."
According to Kretschmer, experience teaches us that "you have to appear as strong as you really are." Kretschmer emphasizes that he does not link the sending of troops to fear among the population. For Kretschmer, Europe must invest in its security architecture so that an attack on the EU or Ukraine does not become a reality in the future.
The leader of the CDU Youth Union, Johannes Winkel, calls for German participation in security guarantees to be mandatory in the most necessary cases. "We cannot say on the one hand that our dependence on the American military must be reduced and Europe must finally be strengthened, and on the other hand, refuse to take responsibility when things become concrete," Winkel told the German Editorial Network portal.
While the well-known former diplomat, Wolfgang Ischinger, calls the debate about sending European troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement a "phantasmagorical unnecessary debate." The former head of the Munich Security Conference said that "military and intelligence equipment" in Ukraine is more important as the best guarantee of security. For Ischinger, "from the Russian position, the presence of a British, French, German brigade or division would be practically equivalent to NATO membership." Russia categorically rules this out. "Therefore, we can safely assume that the last thing Putin would accept in the peace negotiations, in an agreement that would be negotiated, would be the presence of German, British or French troops in Ukraine."
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