English summary of the [German] article:
The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola called on the German government to finally decide on the delivery of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, as per German weekly Der Spiegel.
Metsola noted that for Ukraine, “time matters”, and Russia is increasing the pressure — there are only more air targets flying over Ukrainian cities.
Ms. Metsola emphasized that Ukraine “cannot wait forever”, and that there is broad support in the European Parliament for such a decision by Germany.
The debate on Taurus flared up again after the United States had lifted long-range restrictions for Ukraine, and in the view of the upcoming early elections in Germany, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been rejecting these claims.
But the upcoming federal election has fuelled the debate: The vice-chancellor and Green leader Robert Habeck had stressed on German TV that he was ready for this, and parts of the opposition saw it as similar. CDU-head Friedrich Merz had already spoken out for Taurus deliveries.
It is Russia who invaded an independent country against humanitarian law, kidnapped children and is using foreign soldiers form North Korea to fight their war. They also use Iranian drones on Ukrainian territory. Russia also keeps threatening to use nukes. Ukraine returning the favour with Taurus missiles would totally be justified and legitemate with the geneva convention as they are defending themselves.
Well until Ukraine starts to do all those things, it’s not an escalation, right? I am of the opinion that targeting military infrastructure of the attacker is 100% OK, regardless of it’s geographic location. However, general fear is that russia can use the same logic to target Ukraine’s suppliers.
That would be a real escalation tho.