Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski has warned that they are ready to take «unconventional measures» if Germany resists handing over Leopard tanks to Ukraine, «even if someone is offended.»
«If there is strong resistance we will also be ready to take unconventional measures, even if someone feels offended by it, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves,» Jablonski has said for Polish broadcaster RMF.FM.
Jablonski has advanced that they will work with other countries to try to convince Germany, the manufacturer of this type of battle tanks and who has the final word by contract on their transfer to other countries, of the appropriateness of these deliveries to Ukraine as it continues its war with Russia.
«That’s what diplomacy is all about, that sometimes our partners don’t always want to carry out certain actions, if they are subject to various kinds of persuasion or pressure, sometimes they can change their minds, it has already happened several times,» he tells.
For Jablonski, Berlin’s reluctance to send such tanks is motivated by a series of «sympathies created with Russian money» and by how Moscow has been «influencing» and «corrupting» the German political, industrial and business spheres, as well as public opinion.
«Today these people, of course, will not say openly that they support Russia. There are many people who are very ashamed of it, but in reality they act in such a way in order not to harm Russia too much,» Jablonski has elucidated.
«I have a hard time understanding it myself. When it comes to arguments for not handing over weapons, from the very beginning, from the moment when the Russian invasion took place, we have dealt with arguments that were difficult to understand,» he has assessed.
Poland’s words are in addition to those of the other European partners who have been pressuring Germany to allow them to hand over part of their Leopard tanks, as stipulated in the contracts they signed with Berlin, which is reluctant to do so for fear of an escalation of tensions that could lead to a global conflict.
In view of this thesis, Jablonski assures that the only thing that feeds Russian President Vladimir Putin is the «weakness» of his opponents and advocates «hard power» as the only mechanism to stop him.
The latest to criticize Germany for this was Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, taking advantage of his speech at the Davos Forum. «They are grown-up people. They can talk like this for another six months, but people die in our country every day. Can they deliver the Leopards or not?» he questioned.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
