Bundestag deputy: NATO’s involvement in Ukraine conflict may lead to nuclear escalation

Sahra Wagenknecht, a member of the German Parliament and leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice, believes that NATO’s growing involvement in the Ukraine conflict may trigger a nuclear response from Russia, TASS reports

“If NATO becomes a party to the conflict in Ukraine, it will get to a point where Russia will carry out a strike on military facilities in NATO territory,” Ms. Wagenknecht said in an interview with the Funke media group. “After that, the conflict will soon escalate into nuclear confrontation because this is the only field where Russia is equal to NATO,” she noted, adding that ‘this is why it is so crazy dangerous that we are allowing ourselves to be dragged deeper into the conflict’.

“The Russians kept sending messages that they don’t want to see the US army near their borders. In particular, many Western politicians pointed out that Ukraine’s integration into NATO’s military structures will lead to a war,” she recalled. Ms. Wagenknecht stressed that ‘4,000 NATO troops were already present in Ukraine before the escalation of the conflict, 12 CIA bases were located along the Russian border, and joint drills were conducted in the Black Sea’. “Ukraine’s involvement in the US zone of military influence was in full swing,” the politician stressed. According to her, that is why Russia began to take certain measures until, according to Moscow’s estimates, ‘it was too late’.