West should set its own red lines, not just accept Putin’s, argues veteran diplomat

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Former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger says Western leaders should be making more threats and be willing to follow them through.

The West should spend less time fretting about Russian President Vladimir Putin's red lines and set its own, says veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger. 

“Russia keeps saying, if you do this, if you cross this or that red line, we might escalate,” said the 78-year-old onetime chairman of the Munich Security Conference. “Why don't we turn this thing around and say to them: ‘We have lines and if you bomb one more civilian building, then you shouldn't be surprised if, say, we deliver Taurus cruise missiles or America allows Ukraine to strike military targets inside Russia’?”

 That way the onus will be on Moscow to decide whether to cross the red lines — or face the consequences.

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And millions in AIPAC money. The Jews control the world conspiracy theory is of course false, but you'd be extremely naive if you think the decades and dollars Usrael spent creating a government and public that's friendly to its interests isn't a big part of the US government's current attitude.

Americans stop making everything about the US challenge (impossible)

You know most other western countries support Israel too, right?

There's Western support and there's what the US does for Israel. No other state gets away with regularly killing US citizens the way Israel does.

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