Sarah Wagenknecht has once again come out in favour of negotiations with the Kremlin on Ukraine. In her opinion, Germany could ask Gerhard Schröder to ask Vladimir Putin about their possibility and conditions. The German politician also sketched out her peace plan for Kiev: the US should give up Ukraine as its zone of influence, Ukraine should become neutral and receive security guarantees, and referendums under the auspices of the UN should be repeated on the territories occupied by Russia.
Sarah Wagenknecht disagrees with the assertion that negotiations with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine are impossible.
“We cannot know that as long as we refuse to make him a serious offer to negotiate,” the politician said in an interview with T-Online. She also pointed out that the US once negotiated even with the Taliban* in Afghanistan, and this, in her opinion, is reasonable.
On the contrary, “it is absurd that Chancellor Scholz with Schröder, someone in his party who has a direct channel for talks with Putin, does not ask him behind the scenes to check the chances for a ceasefire and peace talks.”
“To not use this is negligence,” Wagenknecht states.
“What the West has not done so far is to formulate a realistic negotiating offer to Russia,” the German politician continues. In her opinion, an end to the conflict in Ukraine could look as follows. First, a ceasefire should be reached in exchange for an end to Western arms deliveries to Ukraine. In addition, the US should “refuse to turn Ukraine into its zone of military influence: no military bases, no missile bases, no spy centres”.
Regarding the future Russian-Ukrainian border, Wagenknecht proposes “a UN-supervised referendum in the occupied territories, in which the people themselves decide which state they want to belong to.” While Ukraine should become a neutral state, it could receive security guarantees from other countries.
“I can imagine China, Turkey or even France,” Wagenknecht suggested. Who certainly doesn’t fit this role is Germany. ”
Germany was involved in the war in such a way that it would be difficult to imagine it as a guarantor power.”
To the observation that the negotiating position for Ukraine is not the best right now and the West should perhaps increase its arms support, Wagenknecht responds that “we supply all the time without improving anything for Ukraine.” Furthermore, she believes that the West simply does not have enough weapons to turn the tide in Kiev’s favour.
“The US is now even supplying confiscated rifles from Iran. Ukraine and the West urgently need to change strategy, as “the main thing Ukraine is running out of is not ammunition, but combat-ready soldiers.”
* Taliban – organisation under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
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