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02 Feb 2026, 11:54 GMT+10
Sahra Wagenknecht has warned that nuclear rearmament would violate international law and make the country a target
German politician Sahra Wagenknecht has condemned growing calls for her country to take part in nuclear rearmament, calling the proposals "madness."
Germany is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons under international law, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Two Plus Four Treaty, the 1990 agreement that enabled German reunification in return for limits on its military capabilities, including renouncing nuclear arms.
Earlier this month, Kay Gottschalk, the parliamentary finance policy spokesman for Alternative for Germany (AfD), said that Berlin "needs nuclear weapons," arguing that Europe can no longer rely on US protection.
In a post on X on Sunday, Wagenknecht, who previously served in the Bundestag and founded the Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht party, said that "the cross-front for the nuclear rearmament of Germany is growing."
"Following advances by AfD politicians for a German nuclear weapon, CDU warmonger Roderich Kiesewetter and former Green foreign minister Joschka Fischer are now also calling for Germany's participation in a European atomic bomb. What madness," she wrote.
Fischer said last week that Europe must pursue nuclear rearmament, with Germany taking the lead. Kiesewetter proposed in turn that Berlin could instead "contribute financially" to a European nuclear umbrella that Finland, Sweden, and Poland are planning to develop.
Wagenknecht argued that Germany's proposed acquisition of nuclear weapons would constitute a serious violation of Berlin's international legal obligations and would undermine the global system of nuclear arms control. She also warned that US intermediate-range missiles planned for deployment in the Federal Republic, which are capable of striking targets deep inside Russian territory, pose a major security risk.
"The missile deployment undermines the nuclear balance between the US and Russia and massively increases the danger for Germany to become the target of a nuclear strike in the event of conflict," she wrote.
Instead, Wagenknecht called for Germany to lead a diplomatic disarmament initiative and demanded the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from German territory. "US atomic bombs out! No US intermediate-range missiles in Germany!" she added.
(RT.com)
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