Joe Barnes and James Rothwell – The Telegraph Feb 28, 2024
Germany was accused of a “flagrant abuse of intelligence” after revealing that British soldiers are supporting Ukrainian forces launching long-range Storm Shadow missiles.
Olaf Scholz said on Monday that he would not deliver the Taurus, Berlin’s equivalent of the Storm Shadow, as it would require soldiers assisting on the ground, citing the UK and French approach with their own systems. Mr Scholz argued that following the UK would make Germany a “participant in the war”.
The comments were seen as endangering British military and diplomatic personnel on the ground.
Tobias Ellwood, the former chairman of the Commons defence committee, said: “This is a flagrant abuse of intelligence deliberately designed to distract from Germany’s reluctance to arm Ukraine with its own long-range missile system. This will no doubt be used by Russia to racket up the escalator ladder.”
Mr Scholz was also criticised by German opposition MPs.
“The chancellor’s statement regarding France and Britain’s alleged involvement in operating long-range cruise missiles used in Ukraine is completely irresponsible,” Norbert Rottgen, a senior MP from Angela Merkel’s former ruling party, the CDU.
Mr Scholz is under mounting pressure to deliver the long-range missile to disrupt Russia’s supply lines and prevent Moscow taking further territory.
He said on Monday that German soldiers could not follow their British and French peers in “the way of target control and accompanying target control”. The Storm Shadow is co-produced by the UK and France.
“German soldiers can at no point and in no place be linked with the targets that this system [the Taurus] reaches. Not even in Germany,” Mr Scholz said.
Britain is known to provide intelligence on Russian targets but it is unclear what level of support is given to Ukrainian troops firing its missiles on the ground.
On Tuesday, the UK Government announced it had a “small number” of soldiers deployed inside Ukraine, specifying only that some were involved in medical training.
Mr Scholz’s speculation on the role played by British troops in Ukraine has heightened concern for the safety of diplomats and other personnel stationed in the country, defence sources told The Telegraph.
It has also increased the threat of potential Russian overseas intelligence operations on British soil, the sources added.
In response to Mr Scholz, the Ministry of Defence simply referred queries to Kyiv on Tuesday.
“Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow and its targeting processes are the business of the armed forces of Ukraine,” a spokesman told The Telegraph.
“The UK, along with other allies, is providing a range of equipment to Ukraine to help it counter Russia’s illegal and unprovoked aggression.”
Taurus missiles are capable of deeper strikes and contain more sophisticated bunker-busting technologies than the British Storm Shadow and French Scalp cruise missiles delivered last year.
The German missile, which has a range of 310 miles, could easily strike politically sensitive targets, such as Moscow or the Kerch bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea.
Justin Crump, chief executive of Sibylline, an intelligence consultancy, said: “British support to Ukraine is hardly news to Moscow given repeated leaks, but this has previously been veiled in ambiguity – itself drawing on a trick from Russia’s own playbook.
“[Mr] Scholz though has more clearly pierced this veil. His assertion is a gift to Russian propagandists, already forming a key part of Russia’s effort to undermine Nato cohesion and support for Kyiv during this critical period ahead of US and UK elections.”
“More immediately, it will drive Russia to redouble efforts to target foreign forces present in Ukraine and make inflated claims of losses.”
Mr Scholz has a deep mistrust that Ukraine would ignore his orders not to strike those targets, analysts said.
“It has become very clear that the reason why he is not in favour of delivering Taurus is because he fundamentally does not trust the Ukrainians to use those missiles in a way that [does] not go against what he perceives as Germany’s interests,” Fabian Hoffman, a doctoral research fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, said.
“[Mr] Scholz is absolutely frightened that any of these Taurus missiles could be used in an attack against a politically sensitive target, either in Ukraine or Russia.
“Simply the theoretical ability to strike targets as far as Moscow with German weapons systems creates a blockage in the chancellor’s head… a massive fear of escalation potential and the consequences this could have for Germany.”
Experts say that Germany could overcome its fears of escalatory strikes by pre-programming donated Taurus missiles to prevent such attacks.
The US is known to have installed geo-blocking software on its Himars rocket launchers sent to Ukraine, preventing Kyiv’s forces from firing into Russian soil with the weapons system.
It’s all over for Nazi Britain. Outed by a fellow Nazi German, and Scholz also outed Macron.
The truth, which some of us have known for a long time, it that Nazi Amerikans, Brits and Frogs have been operating all the advanced weapons in UKraine, and most importantly, those being fired into old Russia.
The Russians always knew what was going on, but convenient to leave alone for the sake of a nuclear WW3.
The alternative fake news and all the pundits who claim to tell the truth, said the was a ‘proxy war’. Well, little old me said this was bollox. This is a war between NATO and Russia, and for the sake of convenience, it was conducted in UKraine.
Not only are there tens of thousands of NATO Nazi troops fighting in UKraine, with tens of thousands of MI6, CIA funded Nazi mercenaries, nearly all the high tech kit, and I include tanks, are operated, or part operated by Nazi NATO forces.
Clearly, the body bags do not come home.
How does Putin fend off the elite Russian hoards who want their finger on the nuclear buttons?
It is an inconvenient truth, that Putin is weak, and he’s not up to fighting this war against the great Nazi Satan. Putin must act, because Russian red lines have been raked through the mud, or someone with proper Russian balls should take power, and do what needs to be done.
While NATO appears to be divided, there’s still enough Nazi nutters who want boots in UKraine. Germany supplied tanks, but other Nazis from other NATO countries are operating them.
Come on Russia, the Nazis are about to try and escalate to a none nuclear WW3, which is a fantasy. What says that Nazi leaders have been convinced by bullshit MI6 intelligence, that the Russian nuclear forces don’t actually work? What says this isn’t the NWO Satanic Nazi sect belief system? What says that MI6 goes on further to compound their propaganda, that Putin is weak, and this supports our belief that Russian nuclear systems won’t work?
I don’t need to remind you about WMD, Niger Yellow Cake, & Russiagate lies formulated by MI6, and believed by the elected thicko sheeple, as the Nazi gospel.
Come on Putin, you’re becoming a big international joke. How many more are you going to have killed? 3, 4, 5, even 6 million, because you are weak?
To use an analogy, Putin is like a business man who knows his business is bust, but keeps trading, and running up enormous debts, because he’s too weak to make the right decisions. So if you like, the debt is the expansion of the war.
US forces going into UKraine will be a timed perfectly for US domestic politics. There are 7 active months when US forces could be sent into UKraine, and they’ll be last, after European NATO forces have entered UKraine.
Putin’s weakness is falicitating this, and I’m not saying for one moment that Putin is in choots with the Nazis, no, Putin’s problem is that he’s the only sane individual in the room. Putin doesn’t understand Nazi sect rules. Putin is under this illusion common sense will prevail. Russia needs a proper mad man to deal with this Nazi cancer.
I’m happy with the spellings, but how will they change it?
Hardly an Issue !
The British navy are at war against me…!
Helping invaders land on Kent beaches against my wishes.
They even have preference over me once they have established their B&B beachhead.
Given an advantage in many ways, over & above what I can claim/expect.
It’s irrelevant, nobody I know seems bothered.
That said, There is a perverse contentment knowing I’m ‘different’.
Hats off to these Anglo Saxons who think they are serving King and Country! Perhaps if the British Isles suffer the devastation of a nuclear induced tidal wave their folly will be seen in a more sobering light.
Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly states that NATO Nazis are planning to attack Russia, and that Russia could, most likely, use nuclear weapons, in his state address to the nation.
Of course, this chat is home targeted, with a smidgen of Nazi ear bashing, because the truth, this has been relayed all centers of Nazi power, and to them, it’s like the boy who cried wolf. They think Putin is all chat, and it doesn’t matter which way the truth falls on this point. Truth only matters when both sides believe it.
We are so say truthers on here, even though we’re infiltrated by Joos, Zionists, and Nazis, no one really gives a crap what we think, and this is the Nazi sect mind set. They rely on the fact that Putin is a good honest man, leading an honest moral based society, and that because of this, Russia will flinch when it comes time to use nukes, in fact, way past time, and they expect the Russian elites to fold and remove Putin.
As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, the Nazis believe that Russia is theirs and all it’s resources belong to the City Crime Cartels.
It is a MASSIVE sign of weakness, that Putin feels the need to state the obvious. Putin should’ve used nukes a long time ago, but he’s fundamentally weak.
Putin was a great statesman. He rebuilt Russia into a global power and global economy, and let’s be very honest, Putin would’ve stepped down a decade ago, if it weren’t for MI6 meddling in Russia and trying to assassinate him. But Putin is still there, and he’s the wrong leader, when no one in the Nazi sect understands international law of common decency.
The Kremiln needs a monster. Someone who will throw nukes all day long to fight this Nazi cancer.
I dearly hope some Russian analysts are reading this.
Lord Dannatt, previously a British military Nazi muppet has made the startling revalation that our world has become, just like that, as Tommy Cooper would say, a much more dangerous place.
Dannatt says this, oblivious to Nazis currency wars, illegal Nazi sanctions, or Nazi instagated trade wars. He fails to mention our support of Israel, our resources based clash with Russia, or our deamonisation of those nasty yellow folk (not my sentiment at all) in China.
Like a well instructed sect member, Dannatt just believes this terrible situation just happened, as if by Satanic Nazi MI6 writing pool Harry Potter creation, just like that.
Despite his strange beliefs, he completely fails to recognise his part in the demise of Nazi UK military clout, or the criminal activities carried out by MI6 and the SAS, although, I doubt Dannett was ever paid enough to know was was going on under his command.
And I say this, as the farce into our near £10 billion investment (lol) into two aircraft carriers at £7 to £8 billion, plus each F35 at £90 million each, with a lifetime running coast of £300 million each, and remember, these F35Bs were specifically purchased to use on these carriers.
It now turns out, that by the latest, 2028, HMS Rust Bucket Prince of Wales, will either be permenetly mothballed, or sold, or leased to another Nazi power. Let’s put this in perspective. The US has 11 carriers, but can only aford run 4 of them, and they can’t even run them all of the time.
The point being, Nazi Britain is more than bankrupt, and this dire situation is why Nazi Britain has fraught a near secret war against Russia for 20 plus years, and why UKraine is Nazi Britain’s last roll of the dice.
There’s a huge struggle in NATO right now, and at any time, we could see a big false flag.
seems he is the only wise german politician
in the cave of idiots .
Interesting how the 7-8 billion Africans/Asians/Latin Americans are not involved in any major war decimating millions of their population–like the white race is experiencing in Ukraine. Figure it out whitey.
Somebody ought to tell the Gerry’s that these very same state goonz flicking flack at Slavs, actually blew up their Gas pipe line too.. Yes that’s right.. a real act of international terrorism carried out by their trusted partners in the G7 and we know how much the Germans love their gas…
But it seem that the ‘jewes’ running Germany and that includes this insane reprobate Scholz..(should be Schultz).. are OK with that and would rather not go down that particular line of inquiry..
.. because the Yangees who have actually owned them (and you) since 1945 ..have a diabolical plan to destroy the German people their infrastructure and country and by association the whole of Europe.. and ship what’s left of its industry and intellectual property to the ‘jewes’ that run the Yangee multi culti junta…(probably IS-RA-EL even)..
Turning it into Africa en route.. with a dash of everywhere else..
You see, the Morgenthau plan was always kept on the boil and for obvious reasons..and now it’s been kindly rolled out to the whole of Europe along with a good dollop of democidal bio-cide.. because that was always the Grand Plan and it’s now time for the next phaze..in fact you are living through it… yes..now.. for the moment..
So buckle up… and grab a tool you’ll need one… Quick!…
Odd how Jutin is allowed to invade Ukraine without any declaration of war from Britain/France (2 years now & still nothing), but when Hitler invaded Poland they waited only 3 days to announce war on Germany. Oh that’s right, Jutin is a member of the Jew-Commie cabal governing NATO/Russia & a Chabad agent of Whiteocide– whereas Hitler/NS Germany was a real enemy that had to be eliminated. now you know
@aleister
Spot on mate!
boy this Eichmann guy makes good posts