The conflict researcher Hein Goemans classifies the Pdeliveries of Germany and the USA to Ukraine as a turning point in the war a. “With this decision, the West seems to have crossed the Rubicon,” says the professor of international politics at the University of Rochester in the US state of New York of the German Press Agency. “The West is no longer taking the line that Ukraine must not lose. It is now pursuing the goal that Ukraine must win.”
The Dutchman Goemans is an internationally renowned expert who has dealt in particular with the question of how military conflicts are ended. His book “War and Punishment” is considered a standard work in this field of research.
The determined and coordinated action of the USA, Germany and other Western countries is definitely the right course of action, says Goemans. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter allows every UN member to do so right to self-defense a. “Those who warn against an ‘escalation’ and therefore did not want to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine seem to want to limit this right. That would be an extremely dangerous precedent. It would confirm the aggressor – Russia -.”